Some Teach, Some Do

Like that commercial where the narrator says "you wouldn't want your doctor doing your job" while showing a doctor with a jack hammer drilling into a water main, Obama should not put college professors in charge of our country. His cabinet is made up exclusively with individuals hand picked from academic circles. Energy secretary Chu is probably an extremely smart man and I would have little doubt that as a professor he is probably excellent. But, college professors by design do not live in the real world, they teach us and make us think, not just in conventional but unconventional terms. This is one of the great things about academia, it makes one think outside the box and explore possibilities that would otherwise go unexplored. Professors and teachers are ill-equipped to manage anything in the real world and almost sure to make a mess of things which is why no business would hire one to run any aspect of its operations. The federal government is different, Obama seems to think that a professor can pick and choose which energy policies to force the rest of us to adopt while conservatives pick leaders in industry with real world, hands-on, experience and a proven track record of successful results. clarlarc