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Originally posted by DrHoracid
Does that include non-liberal academics like myself?
There Many academics are "consumed" in their research 24/7 and have little time nor the social graces to mix with "normal" people.
If "academics" will stick to their respective subjects and stop "social" engineering then this is fine. UT is the center of socialist "engineering".
There is an "arrogance" factor to overcome also.
This is more of a cry of "foul" that the "masses" have learned to think without being told "what" to think like back in the 60's.
Originally posted by DrHoracid
So many "academics" are involved in very technical and ofthen classified research.
Many of my "pointy headed" associates have few social skills.
Originally posted by Kidfinger
I believe there is a stigma cast by the uneducated upon those with an education. It doesnt help the fact that many professors tend to look down on an uneducated person with a slight bit of pity, something the common man really does not want.
Originally posted by soficrow
Originally posted by Kidfinger
I believe there is a stigma cast by the uneducated upon those with an education. It doesnt help the fact that many professors tend to look down on an uneducated person with a slight bit of pity, something the common man really does not want.
Sorry Dad - didn't mean to diss you. ...You're right: there's a chasm between the educated and uneducated. ...My sense is that educated people have to make the effort, without being patronizing, and let others know they don't think themselves superior (even if they do).
Gotta start somewhere...
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Originally posted by soficrow
Scientists and professors should do more than research and teach. They need to build bridges between academic knowledge and every day life, says communication Professor Richard Cherwitz, founder and director of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He sees bridge-building as a necessary "service" - a way to make higher learning useful to everyone, and "transform lives for the benefit of society."
"...service is often portrayed as a university's third function – taking a back seat to and competing with research and teaching – instead of as academic engagement, in which collaboration and partnership with the community produce solutions to society's most vexing problems.
Service is, after all, the ethical imperative driving research and teaching as well as a principal product of these enterprises. Discharging this duty in an ever-changing world requires radically rethinking "service," finding innovative ways to leverage academe's intellectual capital to transform lives for the benefit of society.
...service should be pursued by prominent scientists and humanists who, while understanding the distinctive mission of research institutions, also recognize the need to build connections between the university and community and who refuse to apologize for being scholars.
This way of thinking was popular back in the 1960's and 70's and for that matter, during every important revolution. It disappeared when academic institutions came to rely on corporate support - and forgot about their roots. The power of the fission helped split the nation into Red and Blue states and also, into educated-professional and uneducated-worker classes.
Originally posted by DrHoracid
Lose the term "uneducated". Many, many, of those whom never entered or finished "college" are very well "educated"
Too many "academics" have superior "ego's" not intellect.
Originally posted by jsobecky
Originally posted by soficrow
Scientists and professors should do more than research and teach. They need to build bridges between academic knowledge and every day life, says communication Professor Richard Cherwitz, founder and director of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He sees bridge-building as a necessary "service" - a way to make higher learning useful to everyone, and "transform lives for the benefit of society."
Why must they do this?
"He sees bridge-building as a necessary "service" - a way to make higher learning useful to everyone, and "transform lives for the benefit of society." "
...service should be pursued by prominent scientists and humanists who, while understanding the distinctive mission of research institutions, also recognize the need to build connections between the university and community and who refuse to apologize for being scholars.
Lol. I don't know anyone who resents academics. Most often, they are happily accepted as just another member of society. No special privileges or respect should be accorded to them.
This way of thinking was popular back in the 1960's and 70's and for that matter, during every important revolution. It disappeared when academic institutions came to rely on corporate support - and forgot about their roots. The power of the fission helped split the nation into Red and Blue states and also, into educated-professional and uneducated-worker classes.
Lol once again. Please, tell us how reliance on corporate support "helped split the nation into Red and Blue states and also, into educated-professional and uneducated-worker classes."
The world is, thankfully, made up of all types of people, educated and not-formally-educated, and that's what makes it so interesting. Both camps can learn from each other.
Originally posted by DrHoracid
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Lose the term "uneducated". Many, many, of those whom never entered or finished "college" are very well "educated" without an academic seal on their wall. Many have be somewhat successful.. Einstien and Bill Gates. Too many "academics" have superior "ego's" not intellect.
Originally posted by soficrow
Sorry Dad - didn't mean to diss you. ...You're right: there's a chasm between the educated and uneducated. ...My sense is that educated people have to make the effort, without being patronizing, and let others know they don't think themselves superior (even if they do).
Gotta start somewhere...
.
Originally posted by DrHoracid
Lose the term "uneducated". Many, many, of those whom never entered or finished "college" are very well "educated" without an academic seal on their wall. Many have be somewhat successful.. Einstien and Bill Gates. Too many "academics" have superior "ego's" not intellect.
Originally posted by jsobecky
Hi soficrow
It might appear that I didn't read the entire article, and I didn't, because the link took me to a registration page.