The history Magna Carta

We must admit that the historical profession is in serious trouble. And professional historians along with it. A number of forces are destroying the pursuit of knowledge. Perhaps the most obvious is that most of us work in a university system that has shifted to a managerial profit-driven business model that requires not new knowledge, or a better understanding of the past, but revenue. We are also expected to turn out student degrees on a factory system, an educational industrialism that teaches only what brings in revenue, and judges our performance of teaching on student popularity. The volume of scholarship is weighed by a point system, and the quality judged by a citation index. Knowledge for knowledge's sake is dying, if not dead.