Billy might appreciate this. :-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html?_r=4&em=&pagewanted=all
GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate
programs in American universities produce a product for which there is
no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and
develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in
subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one
other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost
(sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).
....
Just a few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of political scientists who
had gathered to discuss why international relations theory had never
considered the role of religion in society. Given the state of the
world today, this is a significant oversight. There can be no adequate
understanding of the most important issues we face when disciplines
are cloistered from one another and operate on their own premises.
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