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

[John Carl]

dmb:

If I were to make a suggestion, I'd go after the money. Funding has become a
> corrupting influence in the sciences because the search for truth becomes
> the search for profitable knowledge, which isn't the same thing at all. It
> turns the church of reason into a whore house.
>
>
John:

I agree.  I also agree that academicians for the most part, care far more
over some weird little esoteric branch of knowledge they are passionate
about than they do about money.  They have to pay attention to the money
because that's the kind of world we live in, not because they're greedy.

One thing I've wondered about is the idea of the university being a
self-contained universe, of sorts.  Sort of like an old time monastery where
knowledge is put to actual use in designing self-sufficient communities and
the time pressures are taken away.  Students and philosophers could be
assured of a place of study and work for life, without having to rush things
so.  I think that would be a higher quality education system.

John