<p>^ Hey, if we have no Classics PhDs, who is going to pass down the ancient and timeless wisdom of Western culture to our children and their children, and so on? While we may have too many PhDs in general, 1 Classics PhD has the worth for humankind of at least 100 “gender studies” PhDs.</p>
<p>I shudder to think what humanity would be like today were it not for the Islamic and Catholic scholars who kept the fire of the Ancients alive through the West’s own Dark Ages.</p>
<p>Anyway, I went to Penn and it was awesome. I agree it comes down to:
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