tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post114746516072511739..comments2023-08-01T08:29:19.880-05:00Comments on Atlanta ROFTERS: Business SmartsThe Sanity Inspectorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-1147816033549232112006-05-16T16:47:00.000-05:002006-05-16T16:47:00.000-05:00That's a terrific idea. I'll write a post up once ...That's a terrific idea. I'll write a post up once the end-of-semester mayhem ends.The Polite Liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12951285821981308688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-1147718521405474752006-05-15T13:42:00.000-05:002006-05-15T13:42:00.000-05:00It sounds like that would be good grist for a blog...It sounds like that would be good grist for a blog post. Quite a few conservatives think that academic types routinely roll out the red carpet for radical-chic killers and terrorists, like Mumia and the Yale Talibanist, while calling out riot police and imposing ridiculous strictures on talks by visiting conservatives. Why not have at it, seeing as you've got a ringside seat?<BR/><BR/>Or, if you already did such a post, how about a link?The Sanity Inspectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808433661634318393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10927300.post-1147503694164011822006-05-13T02:01:00.000-05:002006-05-13T02:01:00.000-05:00You've overstating the case rather badly.If the st...You've overstating the case rather badly.<BR/><BR/>If the student is heading for an academic career, then yes, they'll need a Ph.D., and may <I>never</I> encounter the business world. There's nothing particularly wrong with that (unless you're prepared to be equally upset that businessmen never really experience academic research). Similarly, medical doctors won't experience the corporate world outside of medicine for quite some time.<BR/><BR/>Professionals, though, will almost certainly have completed summer internships at corporations as undergraduates. Their professional degree is likely to be a two-year degree (MA, MS, or law school), again with internships over the summers. They'll emerge in their mid-twenties, already with a fair amout of job experience.<BR/><BR/>I could just as easily turn this around: Most Americans never see higher education as anything other than a job ticket and a haven for a few professors with eccentric political views. Because of that, they don't really understand what higher education <I>is</I>,which tends to warp debates over colleges and universities.<BR/><BR/>Thus you have the railing about tenure, without the understanding of why it's necessary. Thus you have the complaints about professors "only working six hours a week," as though they were on vacation when not actually lecturing. Thus you have the unrecognizably bizarre way that professors are generally protrayed in fiction.The Polite Liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12951285821981308688noreply@blogger.com