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Originally Posted by roachboy
i think the opposition at the center of the op--"academic" vs "real life"---is false.
why do folk bother with such nonsense?
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what the op is about i think is an attempt to make some evaluative statements that involves entirely arbitrary notions like "real" or "authentic" or "hands on" as over against "abstract" or "bookish" or "ivory tower".............................
why waste your time trying to figure out some way to decide which is "better"?
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i bother because everyone has a different way of arriving at the point of "themselves" and "what they know." yet so many people cannot agree on how something should be done, what something really means, what something is. so the way i see it, knowledge, reality, is almost subjective. if that is the case, then why is it so important to people who has a degree in what, who has experience in what, etc?
the op is totally about making evaluative statements involving notions like "real" or "authentic." i just don't see them as being arbitrary.
i wasn't trying to figure out which is better. i was trying to figure out
IF one was better,
if they equaled out in the end, or
if it was comparing apples to lamps.
based off your answer, you say it's comparing apples to lamps (unless i misunderstood). and so you've answered my question. thanks.