My point was in response to a post that seemed to argue that academic knowledge has little worth compared with someone's grandfather who was wiser than academics they knew.
My post argued no such thing. It did argue that academic credentials in themselves are no certain indicator of character or moral worth.
If I believed that academic knowledge was of little worth, would I have racked up more than $100k of debt to get my degrees? Would I have lived like a monk on graduate instructor's stipends all these years? Would I be staying up nights working on a dissertation in addition to teaching and working another job if I believed that knowledge was hogwash?
You are well within your rights to defend yourself, but you are not within your rights to misrepresent my position in order to do it.
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