I'll be honest, I haven't read the article, just the headline, but the hard-line being proposed(in the title) is just as wrong as suggesting we need term limits to prevent career politicians or age limits to prevent senile politicians.<p>One of the best professors in my Computer Science department was the oldest. He still used Emacs, he biked to work, he taught. I brought up politics because I see similar proposals to deal with Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Bernie Sanders. Fuck this ageism, counter the issues you find with a person without relegating an entire group of people to a forced retirement.<p>Now that I have saved my spot, I will read this article.<p><i>Edit</i>
That was a quick read. As I suspected the author is proposing a blanket ban without respect to ability, and even brings up the cummulative ages of three potential DNC presidential candidates and the date of the signing of the US Constitution to make some kind of point. They attack older academics who “love the work too much to give it up”, but they mention none of the real issues in upper-level education(a trend towards profit) that cause the problem.<p>I don't know how I feel, as a thirty year old, about a sixty-five year old requesting the seventy year olds get out of the way for the twenty-five year olds, but it's definitely not enthusiasm.