Up the Academy – How and Why Academia is Often an Intellectual and Artistic Desert
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By David Gottfried Academia is at times very much a dunce. Very simply, people with doctorates spend so much time studying a certain field and making a career of what they have studied that they are loathe to question the deficiencies of what they have studied. Questioning their education can come perilously close to questioning their income. By the time they are in their mid-Twenties, they are old men: Their thought is ossified, sclerotic, and they are afraid to entertain any ideas which might challenge the dogmas of their doctorates.
Up the Academy – How and Why Academia is Often an Intellectual and Artistic Desert
Up the Academy – How and Why Academia is…
Up the Academy – How and Why Academia is Often an Intellectual and Artistic Desert
By David Gottfried Academia is at times very much a dunce. Very simply, people with doctorates spend so much time studying a certain field and making a career of what they have studied that they are loathe to question the deficiencies of what they have studied. Questioning their education can come perilously close to questioning their income. By the time they are in their mid-Twenties, they are old men: Their thought is ossified, sclerotic, and they are afraid to entertain any ideas which might challenge the dogmas of their doctorates.