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According to Warwick, the purpose of university training in nineteenth century Oxbridge was to produce scholars imbued with Victorian virtues (among them a passive attitude towards politics) and, through teaching in schools or in the pulpit, to propagate them in the wider population. Nationalist...

I was a nuclear astrophysicist in my academic instar, an instrument project scientist on an early Shuttle mission, and retired from an Air Force FFRDC a few years ago. My research interests range from neutrino physics in the early universe to differential game theory.

I can recommend a superb book that addresses some of the points raised in this thread: "Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics" by Andrew Warwick, U. Chicago Press, 2003. The now-widespread practice of teaching physics and math by drill in increasingly difficult...