[MD] The Academy is Evil! Here's what I'd do instead...

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Hi dmb,

Are you kidding me?  How many academic professionals do you know?  You
are operating in a dream world, dmb.  I don't even feel like setting you
straight.  I suppose if you agree with the way academics is going, then you
are part of the problem.  Do you think continuing tenure is based on
intellectual qualities?   Perhaps you spent too much time in the ivory
tower.  Maybe you want to become a professor.  Well, if you can't do, then
you teach, so it may be appropriate.  Get out now and again, it might do you
good.  Please don't insult us with your naivete.  It makes this forum
look ridiculous.

Mark

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:38 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> John said:
> ...I'm certainly not a fan of any kind of "anything goes" mentality which
> throws open the doors to any nutjob with a holy book and an agenda. ...But
> the wholesale adoption of a values-free worldview, and the almost
> police-state-like imposition of this worldview has crippled true
> intellectual debate and growth oughta be checked somehow.
>
> dmb says:
> Police state-like imposition of a values-free worldview? That doesn't sound
> like a fair criticism of academia. It sounds more like a paranoid conspiracy
> theory. In the real world, I think it would be hard to find an academic
> professional who did not rate academic freedom as one the their most
> cherished ideals. The ability to think independently, critically and
> creatively are the things that earn respect in that that world. To the
> extent that intellectuals get famous or earn a good reputation, it's based
> on intellectual qualities. And what's wrong with that? Why shouldn't we
> value good thinking and good ideas? If there is a better way to do it,
> nobody has thought of it yet. But you can bet your bottom dollar that there
> is a small tribe of scholars working on that question too.
>
> Police state, my ass. Try to find any institution that's more open to new
> ideas or more concerned with intellectual freedom. I honestly can't think of
> one single example. Can you?
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