Why are academics so stupid?
eg: not knowing left from right or how to open a door
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My experience in academia was not a positive one. Foolishly, I thought it was going to be fabulous. that I'd be working with intelligent people. mature people. and that I wouldn't have to deal with the drama and office politics that I'd found so tedious in previous positions. I was disabused of those notions rather quickly.
THEY BEHAVED LIKE SPOILED CHILDREN!! They bickered about parking spaces, classrooms, schedules, you name it! And heaven help you if one of them got a grant or got published. An article in the newspaper or an announcement on the website or a banquet in their honor wasn't enough. They wanted a ticker tape parade! Narcissistic, infantile tyrants, the lot of 'em!
There were perhaps half a dozen out of fifty that had social skills beyond talking about themselves and enough common sense to know that finding them a new tailor was NOT in my job description! Never again! I'd work at McDonald's first! *L*
Intelligence is no substitute for common sense. I often find that the most intelligent people have absolutely no common sense at all.
Don't generalize!!
They're busy thinking of better things-like how to get their next grant funded.
I don't think we should make fun of them. You see, they could do the same thing about us but they don't. They are above all that. What happens is, when you know a subject so well, and I mean really well, then on the great scheme of things some non-important subject such as opening a door becomes irrelevant. The menial things become really non-important compared to the things an academic deals with all the time.
I wouldn't say they are stupid, but they are only as bright as the course they are studying even if a lot of them do think they are the brain of Britain.
Stupidity is the deliberate on unitentioanl poor application of knowledge, rationality and social common sense (this phrase gets around cultural norms) to life, an activity or situation.
Academics or academic study concerns the aquisition of knowledge in a pariticular field, experience or situation. It does not concern the application of knowledge to general life and socialisation. Nor does academic study teach you how not to behave or how to behave unless you are taking a course of study in such a field: How to infliuence and win friends, Improve your IQ, How to converse with anyone etc.
Because they sit in their dusty offices with their heads up their backsides and don't know what is going on in the real world.
I don't think this is true of all academics
An anthropologist or social scientist wrote something about academics and their characterisits. But I don't know who. Anyway being scatty could be a characteristic/cultural indicator to the 'tribe' of academics.
Because they are-they cant all be bright like us!
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Answers:
My experience in academia was not a positive one. Foolishly, I thought it was going to be fabulous. that I'd be working with intelligent people. mature people. and that I wouldn't have to deal with the drama and office politics that I'd found so tedious in previous positions. I was disabused of those notions rather quickly.
THEY BEHAVED LIKE SPOILED CHILDREN!! They bickered about parking spaces, classrooms, schedules, you name it! And heaven help you if one of them got a grant or got published. An article in the newspaper or an announcement on the website or a banquet in their honor wasn't enough. They wanted a ticker tape parade! Narcissistic, infantile tyrants, the lot of 'em!
There were perhaps half a dozen out of fifty that had social skills beyond talking about themselves and enough common sense to know that finding them a new tailor was NOT in my job description! Never again! I'd work at McDonald's first! *L*
Intelligence is no substitute for common sense. I often find that the most intelligent people have absolutely no common sense at all.
Don't generalize!!
They're busy thinking of better things-like how to get their next grant funded.
I don't think we should make fun of them. You see, they could do the same thing about us but they don't. They are above all that. What happens is, when you know a subject so well, and I mean really well, then on the great scheme of things some non-important subject such as opening a door becomes irrelevant. The menial things become really non-important compared to the things an academic deals with all the time.
I wouldn't say they are stupid, but they are only as bright as the course they are studying even if a lot of them do think they are the brain of Britain.
Stupidity is the deliberate on unitentioanl poor application of knowledge, rationality and social common sense (this phrase gets around cultural norms) to life, an activity or situation.
Academics or academic study concerns the aquisition of knowledge in a pariticular field, experience or situation. It does not concern the application of knowledge to general life and socialisation. Nor does academic study teach you how not to behave or how to behave unless you are taking a course of study in such a field: How to infliuence and win friends, Improve your IQ, How to converse with anyone etc.
Because they sit in their dusty offices with their heads up their backsides and don't know what is going on in the real world.
I don't think this is true of all academics
An anthropologist or social scientist wrote something about academics and their characterisits. But I don't know who. Anyway being scatty could be a characteristic/cultural indicator to the 'tribe' of academics.
Because they are-they cant all be bright like us!
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