I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
The threat from cyber criminals and nation states continues to grow. So we need to forge closer partnerships with industry, academia and civil society, and develop the profession to create a more diverse workforce.
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
