 Given d'Land's lack of a successful college, what can you best infer about the society there?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, September 1962. "When I first came here, the Manpower Utilization Directorate, Division of Libraries and Education was a shambles. "I see they're sending two thousand students to d'Land," Retief said, glancing at the Memo for Record. "The Bogans have launched no less than four military campaigns in the last two decades. But I'm wondering what they'll study on d'Land. That's an industrial world of the poor but honest variety." "Academic details are the affair of the students and their professors," Magnan said. "Our function is merely to bring them together. I'll leave him to you, Retief," Magnan said. A tall broad man with bronze skin and gray hair, wearing tight trousers of heavy cloth, a loose shirt open at the neck and a short jacket, stepped into the room. We've turned all the land area we've got into parks and farms. Blue-black sky, stars visible all day. Lots of skiing, bob-sledding, ice skating; and it's the season for woodworkers. Our furniture—" "I've seen some of your furniture," Retief said. Lots of metals in our soil and those sulphates give the woods some color, I'll tell you. The theatres are set up on the sand, or anchored off-shore. Course, I'm only twenty-eight; I can't remember but two other harvests.
 It is not an intellectual society.
 It is not an intellectual society.  It is a society that despises education.  It is a society lacking sufficient leadership to establish better education sources.  It is a society that has found it is more prosperous without high-level education.