Too grad school

From a report written as part of the University of Washington‘s Re-envisioning the Ph.D. project (they have a lot of interesting stuff on their site):

I wanted to add this, a “too” list: Graduate school is too expensive, graduate school is too impersonal. It focuses people down a narrow path. It discourages social interaction. It doesn’t provide the opportunity to connect in ways that are good multidisciplinarily, it doesn’t provide enough opportunities to fit into the global economy and global technology. It’s the Ted Kaczynski at the back of his research lab kind of thing.