WRT becoming smart as per the article rather than good, one point missed in the article is living in the university system means devotion and belief in the class pyramid at the predefined authoritarian apex angle and all that.  You can be whatever you want when you&#x27;re an individual, but when your identity as a philosopher is as a cog in the hierarchical machine, you and your ideas must be strictly limited to fit a cog shaped hole at a precise level, not too high so as to threaten those in positions above you, not too low as to be inadequate.