Word: degreeless
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...obvious question is whether a degreeless society would produce enough skilled people to bring technology under control. It is one thing to lambaste the tyranny of diplomaism, but quite another to expect nations to function without high standards of excellence. Illich rightly condemns excessive meritocracy, which makes learning painful rather than satisfying. He bets on natural human curiosity as the best incentive for intellectual achievement. But a society without formal schooling might face mediocrity. Though Illich has started a vital debate, he has not shown that a country can survive by abolishing academic sticks in favor of carrots alone...
...committees so fiercely independent that major change is difficult. By long tradition, the president's powers are limited. He cannot hire or fire professors, or even expel students. In 1958, student rioters pelted the president with eggs, chanting "We want Malott shot!" He wanted the ringleader to go degreeless, but a faculty committee turned him down. When he tried to start a Dartmouth-style "great issues" course, he was also turned down, more or less because it was his idea...
...Having finally been forced to conclude his career as a bogus college professor, Marvin Hewitt, the degreeless wonder who got seven academic posts under four different names (TIME, March 15), received an offer from the city where his father was killed while on duty as a police sergeant. Wrote Philadelphia's Managing Director Robert K. Sawyer: "If your masquerade is really over, it might be possible to find a place for you and your family here...
Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and-after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter-professional recognition; in Lancaster, England...
...Yale in 1723 set the style for the coming centuries by awarding the first honorary M.D. to a degreeless physician named Daniel Turner, who had given the college ?16 worth of books. (Wags quipped that the degree stood for Multum Donavit-"he gave much...