In these ways, academics enable knowledge to do maximum work at minimal cost to its recipients. In short, universities prove their worth if students find it easier to appropriate academic knowledge than the academics themselves originally did.
学者们借助这些方式让知识以最小代价为受众创造最大的价值。 简言之，如果学生掌握学术知识的难度比最初创造知识的学者本人要小，大学就能够证明自己物有所值。