In a lifetime of academics, the best lesson I ever learned was skepticism. The more history you read, the more you encounter experts at the highest level who were spectacularly wrong. And often accompanying the ignorance of life in the Ivory Towers is arrogance - they don't know, and they won't listen. An always-lethal pair. Question everything and never back down.
In a lifetime of academics, the best lesson I ever learned was skepticism. The more history you read, the more you encounter experts at the highest level who were spectacularly wrong. And often accompanying the ignorance of life in the Ivory Towers is arrogance - they don't know, and they won't listen. An always-lethal pair. Question everything and never back down.
In a lifetime of academics, the best lesson I ever learned was skepticism. The more history you read, the more you encounter experts at the highest level who were spectacularly wrong. And often accompanying the ignorance of life in the Ivory Towers is arrogance - they don't know, and they won't listen. An always-lethal pair. Question everything and never back down.