¶ 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"
