Julio: that is a very simplistic (dare I say undialectical?) view of education in America. No one here is arguing against the benefits of being an intellectual or becoming educated. what is being argued is the problems associated with getting a doctorate. Under our current societal arrangements, it's simply impossible to support everyone getting a doctorate, let alone everyone getting a job in the field they get their doctorate. universities are further incentivized to expand PhD programs to sizes that are unsupportable by the academic labor market in order to reduce their own labor costs. This is a problem that needs to be dealt with and means that for those who enjoy a discipline intellectually, pursuing a PhD might not be a great idea. The point however, is not simply for more people to abstain from getting graduate degrees. the point is to restructure this system so that it can support more intellectual advancement and puts people in less precarious positions. Of course the final goal is to redistribute and reorganize work.
There is nothing "anti-intellectual" in that position. -- -Nathan Tankus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
