Obliquely on topic...well...kinda sorta...

Let's Have A Smart Board

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There are 1,500 colleges in the United States and one million college professors. Both the colleges and the professors run from terrible to great, but overall, they’re among the best things we have in this country.

I do have one reservation, and they won’t like to hear me say this, but a lot of college professors don’t work hard enough. The school year is too short. It has too many interruptions.

Our best professors aren’t doing their share with the brains they have and I have an idea. We should involve the brightest people among us, college professors, in the most important work we have -- government.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines in funny costumes, just thinking and talking about what's wrong, college professors should do something.

We would establish a new government agency called The Smart Board. It would be an advisory group comprising a body of 100 college professors, all with PhDs. They wouldn’t be picked by Congress or elected by the rest of us.

They’d be chosen by the people who know them best - other college professors.

Read the whole article at: 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/11/60minutes/rooney/main616858.shtml