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From: The Spectator | Date: October 18, 2003| Author: Jones, Peter | Copyright information

Cheque-books have been sharpened in America to lure top professors to top universities, and the ones attracting the most attention are those 'great communicators' with a reputation based only loosely on specialised knowledge: e.g. those who have released 'rap' records, or undergone sex-change operations, or achieved something of comparable intellectual value. The ancient Greek sophists, too, knew all about what would sell.

The sophists were freelance professional educators, with a comm...

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