Should Sages Get Degrees?
We tend to think credentials signify expertise, but what credentials fundamentally demonstrate is social proof.
A PhD in Philosophy need not mean that I am a philosopher; only that I am someone whom philosophy professors recognize as “one of them.” Titles exist to reinforce a guild, but excellence for its own sake is indifferent—or perhaps even opposed—t…
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