[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 11 Nov 2010, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>No, it's not an either or thing. Universities raison d'etre shouldn't be 
>to turning out as much cubicle fodder as fast as possible, but neither 
>should they be about churning out streams of completely hapless 
>academics.

Someone who knows "how to learn", as Nix specifically put it, is
hardly completely hapless.

>Some real world skills are useful, insisting on some weird 
>concept of academic purity is both elitist and unpragmatic, you remind 
>me of the pure maths snobs who look down on the applied maths people 
>becasue they choose to sully themselves by interacting with the real world.

This is a ridiculous straw man. Hardy was joking, you know.
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