The indispensable Walter Russell Mead goes a long to to explaining just how our nation's elites became "credentialed but not educated." His December 8th post on his blog lays out a convincing case on why America's intellectual class are not part of the solution to our current crisis. A few of the key sentences:
"For America to move forward, power is going to have to shift from bureaucrats to entrepreneurs, from the state to society and from qualified experts and licensed professionals to the population at large."
"Just as the industrial revolution broke up the manufacturing guilds, the information revolution today is breaking up the knowledge guilds."
(Via Instapundit by way of Ed Driscoll).
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