Price reveals a stunning truth: academic standards serve a medical purpose. Requirements like rationality, participation, independence, and collegiality function not merely as educational benchmarks but as diagnostic tools. Failing to meet these standards marks a person as "unfit for life," not just unfit for school or unteachable. Academia thus transforms pedagogical judgments into medical ones, using classroom performance to determine who deserves to exist in intellectual spaces—and by extension, who belongs in society at all.