Has the PhD not become a fetish?
An idol in which the distinction between essence and form, between its distinctive reality and its encapsulation of a value that goes beyond itself are difficult to distinguish?
A scholar could amass all the publications in the cosmos, in all the right academic platforms, yet academic jobs and grants that facilitate scholarly work have the PhD as the starting point of assessment.
The PhD meanwhile, is based on the model of directed, relatively carefully streamlined learning, in which what has been known to work is the template in which the student is drilled in so as to master that which works.
Yet, a significant number of those scholars who founded the academic system that eventually gave birth to the PhD did not work within that model.
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