THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

Francis Collins Sings lyrics:

I came, I bought the books, lived in the dorms, followed directions

I worked, I studied hard, made lots of friends that had connections

I crammed, they gave me grades, and may I say not in a fair way, and more, much more than this, I did it their way

I learned so many things although I know, I'll never us them

The courses that I took were all required, I didn't choose them

You'll find that to survive its best to play the doctrinaire way

And so I knuckled down and did it their way

Well yes there were times I wondered why I had to cringe when I could fly

I had my doubts, but after all, I clipped my wings and learned to crawl

But in the end, I had to bend and I did it their way

But now my fine young friends, now that I am a full professor, where once I was oppressed, I've become the cruel oppressor

With me, I hope you'll see, the double helix is a highway

And yes, you'll learn it best, to do it my way

Well I am just a man, what can I do, open your books, read chapter two

And if seems a bit routine, don't talk to me, go see the dean

You can fail to the victor's hail, and go do it your way

in reply to Dave:

I lucked out in college, having - for my courses in my majors - professors who ran it by the Oxbridge model.

Between uneducated worker drones, ill-educated worker drones, and damn time servers, the ticket-punching nature of the college system, matched with Affirmative Action, is simply a continuation of an inferior public school system.

The Race That Will RULE will simply not tolerate such a system, and it will be washed away in the economy of twenty years hence.

Hopefully, it will be replaced by the University of Phoenix model, linked to professional Standards of Learning.

Another stranded leviathan.