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The problem is that The Professions are a grind Sounds like someone's never worked much in the non-professions. and higher education (in the US at least) teac

• time_management 18y ago
  "The professions" is a meaningless distinction these days. Investment bankers call themselves "young professionals", even though banking is NOT a profession in the historical sense. Life in most corporations, professional or otherwise, seems to be pretty soul-sucking. Orwell described the "beetle-like" type of person, in 1984, who would, with "swift scuttling movements", tend to "flourish best under the dominion of the Party". Indeed such a type of person is most likely to succeed in large private-sector hierarchies, and the corporate grind involves submitting one's future to the whims of beetle-like masters.
• lg 18y ago
  I think by "critical thinking" he means the ability to criticize, or point out flaws in someone's work/theory. And I took a good number of classes in the humanities where this is basically what we were expected to do: "Critically analyze Spinoza's theory of X" usually meant "Discuss what you think is stupid about Spinoza's theory of X." You could do otherwise, but you weren't expected to. Apparently coming up with your own theory, and "critically analyzing" THAT, is something special reserved for a senior thesis. But while all science majors did research projects or programming projects, only the really motivated humanities students did a thesis. Many spent four years just smugly putting down the half-formed ideas of long-dead scholars, and probably poorly.