Too many topics, too little time

Three Cheers for High Tuition
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AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online
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Modern academics often liken their work to drinking from a fire hose. Historians, philosophers, and physicists all find it impossible to keep up with every potentially relevant paper or study. It’s not just a matter of catching up to the state of the art—one couldn’t even read the research materials in an academic field as fast as they are being produced.

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interesting take on tuition.