academia

What: "Academia is like the military: often profoundly useful yet pervaded by values and behaviors that are outright silly generally a result of taking itself far too seriously. That's why both academia and the military are ripe for parody."---the link is a review of a parody of academia.....

Writer: Jonathan Lethem

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:39 AM

What: "Academia is like a business, where we do not optimize profit, but prestige." -the rest in the link...

Writer: Jose Quesada

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:51 AM

What: "This points out how the academic and commercial value systems are different. Academia is like page-rank: your value is defined by what everybody else thinks of you."

Writer: William Cook

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:53 AM

What: "Imagine that academia is like a plant collector intent on cultivating plants from diverse kinds of climates in an excellent conservatory."...Kind of a neat story.....

Writer: Angela Ginorio

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:24 AM

What: "There's a reason why a wise person once said that academia is like a group of warring principalities united by a common parking problem."

Writer: ingermewburn

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:32 AM

What: Reductionism run amok. Reductionism run amok in an authoritarian hierarchy. That's the situation in a typical academic bureaucracy . The disciplines tend not to talk to each other. None of the disciplines want to talk to each other. They each build a strong box and segment from the rest and go deep. That what's going on. There is much to be gained from breaking down these segments in the ice cube tray. But the attitude is so entrenched it will be a generation before intellectual integration takes place on a larger scale. ---Yes indeed.

Writer: LucretiaGermanica

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Date: Mar 9 2011 4:35 AM