01-18-2012, 05:21 PM
There is an old expression I heard many times: Those who cannot do teach. And its not entirely incorrect. Does anyone think that the best entrepreneurs are professors at business schools? Or what about the best artist, journalists, engineers, doctors etc etc etc...
People who are drawn towards teaching at a University level tend to be those looking for easy success. Academia works like this, get a degree, get a masters and then a PhD and latch on to a good school. Publish a few books (and use the slave labor of a few graduate assistants), get your tenure and voila you got it made! You can be the biggest dick on earth but with that tenure it does not matter. Go ahead and say that Stalin was a great leader or that Holocaust never happened (like a professor at Northwestern actually did), it does not matter.
I got tenure and you do not so fuck you!!!
People who are drawn towards teaching at a University level tend to be those looking for easy success. Academia works like this, get a degree, get a masters and then a PhD and latch on to a good school. Publish a few books (and use the slave labor of a few graduate assistants), get your tenure and voila you got it made! You can be the biggest dick on earth but with that tenure it does not matter. Go ahead and say that Stalin was a great leader or that Holocaust never happened (like a professor at Northwestern actually did), it does not matter.
I got tenure and you do not so fuck you!!!
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe