• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    Sounds like a university I know - brilliant and accomplished people, very proud of it, to the point of projecting that pride on everyone else and assume everyone must hold their full title as dear as they do. The idea of one of my teachers, some “First Name, Baron of Examplington-Doublename”, telling us to just call him “Mr. Examplington” would have shorted out their brains.

    For all their laudable competencies, humility was not among them.

    (Not in Australia, but I imagine it’s hardly exclusive.)