I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
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