So, you're saying conduct yourself within social norms or be excluded? Within our Egalitarian Multicultural world there might be a few problems trying to follow that model.
It is precisely multiculturalism that makes an authoritarian state necessary.
I prefer Scholarpedia over Wikipedia for physics articles. I wouldn't apply the phrase "guard our section of the ivory tower" to it, either.
To a large extent corporations not only are OK with this, but encourage more of it with ever increasing degree requirements!
Yes...
An unstructured, pure-vocational model of post-high-school education would be cheaper in money and lifespans. It may arrive. The present system is unsustainable.
But there are factors keeping it in place for the moment. One significant factor is that employers are barred by law from general IQ testing. Higher education can be viewed as a vast and expensive indirect proxy for such testing.
Kiss your keyboard goodbye!
