Shoulders stoop carrying education system's weight

If there is anything that should never be industrialized and rolled off from assembly lines, it's academia. The reason doesn't get any simpler: The input is creative thinking and the output creative ideas or arguments.

The local administration of industry and commerce in Wuhan, Hubei province, recently busted an organized racket of buying and selling dissertations. The company had hired some 80 people to produce academic papers, taking hints from over 200 published journals, for paying customers.

Even more disturbing was a telling statement made by the boss of the firm that his was only one of many companies of the kind prospering in the Chinese education market.