Re: however, this is a tragic situation

Overall I think your post was a good beginning. We could add a lot more,
of course. How many people talk to professors once they're out of
college? It's a rare event, while it's conceivable someone would see
their doctors three or four times a year -- or at least once a year.
Lawyers, well, we see them less often, but come time to buy or sell a
house or get divorced and they become very important. There's direct
personal contact, due to direct personal need, in both cases. There's
no such contact with professors once someone graduates with whatever
degree is terminal for -them-.

I think the perception of "irrelevance" comes from this as well.

I really don't know where you got the idea for that line quoted below,
though. I was asking you about popular attitudes because I saw them
reflected in your initial posts on this topic. I don't really count on
much of anything for the judgment of my own life's work. I haven't
really begun that, to tell you the truth, and once I do I'll judge it by
the worth of its product alone.

Jim

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>But come on, Jim, "popular attitudes" aren't great standards by which to judge one's own life's work anyway. (That might be a major point of disagreement between me and John O.)
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