ABSTRACT
Historically, the men of knowledge have not held power, at least not in the West. They were ornaments. If they had any role at the seats of the mighty, it was that of court jester. There was so little truth, historically, in the adage that "the pen is mightier than the sword" that it can only be called the "opium of the intellectuals." Knowledge was nice. Knowledge was a solace to the afflicted and a joy to the wealthy who could afford it. But it was not power. Indeed, up to recently, the only position for which knowledge prepared was that of servant of the mighty. Oxford and Cambridge, till the middle of the nineteenth century, trained clergymen, the European universities civil servants. The business schools in the United States, set up less than a century ago, have been preparing well-trained clerks rather than entrepreneurs.
