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| Oh, and in defence of academics: academics, strange as it may seem, also have to wrestle with the problems of everyday life - wages, mortgages, meeting absurd government targets, etc. To suggest that they all live in ivory towers and have no contact with 'the real world' is a bit wide of the mark. Not only that, but in my experience they are no more or less likely to indulge in shop talk outside the office than anyone else, and no more or less likely to have good or bad social skills than anyone else. Nor is an interest in intellectual rigour peculiar to academics, and they are just as subject to misapprehensions as anyone else - the only difference being that it is part of their job to try and detect their own misapprehensions in their work. |
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