Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge.
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I understand the point here, but this phenomenon varies from department to department depending on how frequently the professors of x are also the best practitioners of x.
Departments fall on a continuum in this respect, from literature, where almost no professors are among the best practitioners, through CS where a significant number are, to math, where most are.
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So while it's true that only a microscopically small fraction of great literature is produced by literature professors, a lot of the most important new math comes from math professors.
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Incidentally, *this* is the reason you shouldn't major in English or business in college. It's not that literature and business aren't important so much as that the people teaching them in college are no good at them.
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What? My feeling was that basically zero of the best practitioners in CS were left in academia. That anyone worth anything long ago moved to industry where they could largely do the same work but make 5x as much....
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