From the Academy

Ph.D’s for Everybody?

“The problem of the age,” Newman wrote more than a hundred years ago, “is the education of the masses, and literature and science cannot give the answer.” That problem is now so acute that some people have suggested it can best be solved by conferring the degree of Ph.D. on every infant at birth, and so saving him from the boondoggle which too commonly has become “education” in America.