Wednesday, September 08, 2010

The tenured shall inherit the earth




I spent a lot of time in academia. I guess I used to be an intellectual. Several degrees, PhD included. I loved learning and I loved teaching and I was damn good at it. My colleagues, however were another matter...Here is a painfully accurate picture of life amongst the brilliant, or at least the conventionally overeducated. William F Buckley said he would prefer to be ruled by the first five hundred names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. Amen.

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