Academia cannot remain as hermits

COMMENT There are only two kinds of academia - the ones who are in touch with reality and those who are worse than hermits.

Unfortunately, it is the latter that we see all too often in our local institutions of higher learning. They are there just to regurgitate knowledge which they have acquired eons ago. Despite holding professorial posts, some of them have never developed their critical thinking skills.

A few of them can even quote from various scholars on a certain subject, but when it comes to verbalising their own opinions, they fail miserably.