Divide and Conquer Sequence

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"now has all the strong, hunting, fighting men around him,

and he has the information about his enemies over the hill,

and he's got the best swords, and he has a good accounting

system, and he has good logistics. So he overcomes the people

on the other side of the hill and he has a big kingdom and he

feels very great about his kingdom because he has everybody

specialized. So he says, 'I have a beautiful son coming along

here, I'm getting a little old and I see you all are getting

a little old, and I want you to teach somebody about that

language, and I want you to teach somebody about that metal-

lurgy, and I want you to teach somebody about that mathematics

of accounting.'

"I am now giving you the foundations of Oxford

University.

"I am simply saying to you that specialization is the

divide and conquer of the intellectuals by the muscle men.

That's all. This is really very important for us to discover.

"So then the king said, 'I'm not really sure whether

you are all really going to stick. I am going to give you

something I've given nobody else in the kingdom. I am going

to give you tenure. How do you like that? And I want you to

be really great scientists. I don't want any of that cheap

applied science. I want you to be pure scientists. You just"

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