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'''Academic elitism''' is the criticism that ] or academics are prone to ]. The term "]" often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism.
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== Description ==

Critics of academic elitism{{specify|date=August 2013}} argue that highly educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be over represented among ], ]s, and other members of the ] who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers. Economist Dan Klein shows that the worldwide top-35 economics departments pull 76 percent of their faculty from their own graduates. He argues that the academic culture is pyramidal, not ], and resembles a closed and genteel social circle. Meanwhile, he claims, academia draws on resources from taxpayers, foundations, endowments, and tuition payers, and it judges the social service delivered.{{clarify|date=August 2013}} The result is a self-organizing and self-validating circle.<ref>
{{cite journal | ref=harv
| last=Klein | first=Daniel B.
| year=2005
| title=The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics
| journal=Econ Journal Watch
| volume=2 | issue=1
| pages=133–148
| url=http://econjwatch.org/issues/volume-2-issue-1-april-2005
}} }}
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Another criticism{{by whom|date=August 2013}} is that universities tend more to ] than intellectualism per se; for example, academicians may be charged with over-complicating problems and expressing them in obscure language (e.g., the ], ]).

Academic elitism suggests{{clarify|date=August 2013}} that in highly competitive academic environments only those individuals who have engaged in ] are deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do{{attribution needed|date=August 2013}}. It suggests{{clarify|date=August 2013}} that individuals who have not engaged in such scholarship are ]. Steven Zhang of the '']'' has described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the ], as having a "smug sense of success" because "It makes us believe gaining entrance into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself."<ref>
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Deeming scholarly academic discourse as the only means with which to engage in a topic has various implications in a variety of fields of study.

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==Further reading==
*Trow, Martin, "Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Education," Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, 1973 .
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