The academic scholar, along with the great teacher, is vanishing from the faculties of the universities. Specialists occupy the places that they leave. The first victims of this process are the students.
— Read on mises.org/wire/decline-scholar-and-decline-academia
Increasingly common, and intended to ruin people’s careers, these sorts of irresponsible denouncements suggest that academics, on the whole, are simply not as intelligent as people tend to believe.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/the-genteel-touchiness-of-academics/
Very well said. I have found that many of my educated friends and family lack a certain kind of wisdom and common sense that their working class counterparts possess. I have always thought intelligence to be very relative.
John Barleycorn 