Monday, March 25, 2013
Information vs. Insight
Academic credentials can only convey one's having been exposed to knowledge (and often they fail to even do that). The scope, depth, and quality of that knowledge is certainly not guaranteed.
Credentials and time spent exposed to academic echo chambers cannot in themselves produce wisdom.
To be wise, honest, and insightful has nothing to do with the clannish arrogance of many in the academic class.
Long live the academy...and may so many of the charlatans who have overtaken it fade from its halls due to their pompous rejection of wisdom and preference for a cheap substitute of merely parroting dogma.
