The academic world is in need of more phronesis, or practical wisdom,
possessed by the heretics who have crossed the chasm while attempting to
carry the scholar's torch in the heat of marketplace battle. What we are
learning as stealth intellectuals at work in non-academic jobs could
potentially be used to make the academy much stronger. Spies in the house
of work, potential comrades in arms, we can show academics how to
reconnect and, thus, can show them how to survive. First, however, they
should give us much more credit for the intelligence demonstrated by our
leaving in the first place.
See <http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/career/1999/03/29career.html>.
Discussion?
David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
dfenton@bway.net http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc