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The Tired Pretense of Academia

Monday, July 17, 2006

Like most other students, I long accepted the excuses from academia regarding its high barrier to entry and flat out pretentious use of language. “The jargon of the field is necessary to be technically accurate” they would tell me. Proponents of the academy allude to some benevolent purpose behind the absolutely ridiculous babble [...]

written by Brad Fults