Academic Courtesy?
Exchange of Views Typical of Ms. Professor Fringemon:
Attendee to Lecture asks: "Does Gnosticism have any relation to ancient astrology?"
Ms. Professor Fringemon: "Not that I know of."
I say: "I can answer this question. Astrology is pervasive in Gnosticism."
Ms. Professor Fringemon later informs me: "Academic courtesy requires that one remain silent the first time one is invited to attend a research presentation."
Labels: Courtesy
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:24 AM
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You're perfectly free to remain silent. The choice is completely yours.
And perfectly free to talk.
Ms. Prof. Fringemon never realized that I had been in the academic world longer than she had and that I knew there was no such rule. But she knew how to play the bureaucracy in her favor on other issues.
Jeffery Hodges
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