Comment Re:At the risk of sounding Marxist... (Score 0) 869
I may have come off sounding a little strong (with the "educated" part). I do, however, think that he still undercuts his own argument, by editorializing and being so biased against WikiPedia. WikiPedia isn't something sold for hundreds of dollars in a well bound series of books, yet he holds it to that standard and derides it for not matching the editorial standards of the Encyclopedia.
I didn't mean to come of as an anti-intellectual populist; just that in my experience with higher education (especially in the humanities), the "degree" more often than not comes with some pretty hefty biases and bagagge. It's a bit of a different story, in my opinion, for the hard sciences. Your points about physics and evolution are both well taken, and ones I would agree with.
I didn't mean to come of as an anti-intellectual populist; just that in my experience with higher education (especially in the humanities), the "degree" more often than not comes with some pretty hefty biases and bagagge. It's a bit of a different story, in my opinion, for the hard sciences. Your points about physics and evolution are both well taken, and ones I would agree with.
