 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. "I don't appreciate frivolity with reference to this Division," Magnan said testily. "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. Fruit, grain, that kind of thing; getting it in doesn't take long. Course, I'm only twenty-eight; I can't remember but two other harvests. Miles and miles of vineyards covering the mountain sides, and crowding the river banks, with gardens here and there. There's prizes for the biggest day's output, bets on who can fill the most baskets in an hour.... The sun's high and bright, and it's just cool enough to give you plenty of energy. Come nightfall, the tables are set up in the garden plots, and the feast is laid on: roast turkeys, beef, hams, all kinds of fowl. The cooking's done by a different crew each night in each garden, and there's prizes for the best crews. Said it was what they classified as menial drudgery; you'd have thought I was trying to buy slaves." "Properly speaking, equipment grants are the sole concern of the Motorized Equipment Depot, Division of Loans and Exchanges." "First come, first served.
 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.