There is something fundamentally rotten in academia and these cases are just symptoms, not the cause of the problem.
In essence academia are too much based on reputation and merit is measured in how much money the professor generates for the university. It leads to perversity.
Sickening. Professors are just smart cookies, it doesn’t automatically give them people or management skills. It definitely is not an excuse to let them be. There’s always a few rotten apples, and yes, they are most certainly replaceable.
Didn’t think highly of uni when I left it and sure as hell don’t now. Pretty much everyone I know that did / is doing a doctorate is two bad nights sleep away from a nervous breakdown.
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There is something fundamentally rotten in academia and these cases are just symptoms, not the cause of the problem.
In essence academia are too much based on reputation and merit is measured in how much money the professor generates for the university. It leads to perversity.
Sickening. Professors are just smart cookies, it doesn’t automatically give them people or management skills. It definitely is not an excuse to let them be. There’s always a few rotten apples, and yes, they are most certainly replaceable.
Didn’t think highly of uni when I left it and sure as hell don’t now. Pretty much everyone I know that did / is doing a doctorate is two bad nights sleep away from a nervous breakdown.
Slightly off topic, recently read the [Case Against Education](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/7t59x1/review_bryan_caplans_the_case_against_education/) by Caplan and it’s honestly pretty “viewquaking”.
It goes beyond the professors at the VUB.