“A horde of illiterate, ignorant cretins” made more cretinous

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Have Canadian Law Schools Become 'Psychotic Kindergartens'? (Inside Higher Ed)

Canadian bloggers have been buzzing in the last week about a harsh critique of the country's law schools, which are compared to "psychotic kindergartens" in a journal article published by Robert Martin, a retired law professor at the University of Western Ontario. The article was published last year in the journal Interchange, but has only recently been the topic of debate. The article portrays law schools as politically correct and focused on obscure issues. Martin closes his piece by suggesting that Canada's law schools all be shut down and turned over to the homeless as a place to live – thus in Martin's view solving multiple social problems at the same time. The article is available only to subscribers of the journal, and while its focus is law schools, it isn't much more kind to the rest of the country's universities. "Each fall, a horde of illiterate, ignorant cretins enters Canada's universities. A few years later, they all move on, just as illiterate, just as ignorant and rather more cretinous, but now armed with bits of paper, which most of them are probably not able to read, called degrees," he writes. The Canadian legal blog SLAW features a defense of legal education in the country and criticism of Martin's views.

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