King draws a distinction that most educational institutions still fail to grasp: that a sharp mind without ethical moorings becomes a liability rather than an asset. A brilliant surgeon who cuts corners on patient consent, a talented accountant who cooks books—these are educated failures, not successes. The radical part of his claim isn't that character matters alongside intelligence, but that they're inseparable *goals* of the same enterprise, not competing priorities to balance. When a university measures itself by test scores and research output alone, it's accepted the premise that education can be one without the other—exactly what King says it cannot be.