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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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Unless your in the top 10 elite-only universities -- The professors are just life long nerds that honestly want to know the truth about their subject. Even some of those at elite universities are. Most of them travel and spend a lot of time in the field despite the Ivory Tower stero-type (again, the stero-type is more accurate for Ivy League types).
Despite what you may have herd, intellectuals don't always cater to Ivy scholarship. Just the government and those in power. Mid-tier professors are actually totally against the system because they feel like its holding smart people like them back. They feel like they can't have an intelligent conversation because the media distracts everyone. They feel like the wrong people in society make too much money etc...
So this idea that college = elitist is a little misleading. There is a real learning and discovery at universities -- even if most the students are just there to have fun 4 years and get a professional entry-level job (hopefully).
The best example I can give on the divide between real intellectuals from the university and media intellectuals from playing who's who -- is Noam Chomsky vs other media pundits.
Noam is an peace dove know-it-all geek, but he doesn't play ball with the elites (he is happy studying and living on his trust fund). So you never see him on T.V. or hear about his ideas, unless you go to a mid-level university and have a professor explain them to you at the end of a 400 level social science class. In my experience, about 3% of people that age even understand wtf he talking about.
I think in order to make this country any better we got to stop it with the jocks vs nerds mentality of labour-oriented conservatives and university-oriented teachers. It's just guised anti-intellectualism on the right. But on the left, its a kind of ugly contempt that would better be directed against those actually causing the problems in society.
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private school maybe, public schools LOLno
10 years ago maybe, current year hahahhahahahahhahaa
professors like that may exist in the public system but they're very few and far between. rock the boat even slightly and you're fired and blacklisted these days. ever say an edgy thing on the internet once in your life? well that student you failed for not showing up to the test is going to find that and complain to the admin. etc.