@cicerone imposter,
Not all of them ci. I'm unusual. No matter how many exams I passed I could never leave my old mates most of whom were not very good at passing exams. And who were'nt past taking the piss out of me.
You can't talk cricket, football, horses, women and politics with the average teacher. I know. They read Autocar and Which? Learned tomes about improved methods of dealing with the monsters in their charge. Politics is out because their heads are in the teacher's shed on that subject. They border on fascism though when spending their wages.
fm doesn't understand. He's been in a geology enclave where they all think alike about religious beliefs. fm gives a good flavour of the tone of it.
It's different in a school. There are experienced teachers as well as a few just out of college wagging their tales and looking for some empty heads to spout their idealistic nonsense to. They get defenestered. They develop as I said. Evolve sort of. In a geology department there's comforts. No pressure to evolve. The monsters have been sieved. Catalytically cracked with eager beavers of the lighter fractions tapped off. It fossilises. Set in stone. Bobby Jindal's off his head becomes a fact.
We can't have the destiny of a superpower being determined by some readings off a dating machine. Which we didn't see. Being told what they are is our role.
Science is a Church. Jealous of its position. And it has cults too. Geology is one. Psychology is another. They don't always see eye to eye. Same with Economics. Sociology. Each doing its own house style of Critical Thinking. Bombarding TV production companies with ideas for programmes.
What the beer sop route does is cause attention to be given to things that are interesting rather than things one is pointed at.
