Academia (n.) is a haz-mat suit for dealing with lazy thought.
Academia (n.) is a chronic disease characterized by a compulsion to write lengthy specialized treatises in unintelligible vocabularies, for the purpose of rising in the esteem of those similarly afflicted.
Academia (n.) is a game of luck. Asking an academic for advice about grad school is like asking a lottery winner for financial advice.
Academia (n.) is the study of the passion-stains on the bedsheets of the orgasm of poetry.
Academics (n.) is a competition for a prize that only the other competitors can see.
Academics (n.) is like a guild that admits by apprenticeship and denies being a guild.
Academics (n.) pays in status because it cannot pay in anything else.
Academics (n.) rewards being unarguable, which is not the same as being right.
Adult education (n.) is mostly unlearning, which costs more than learning and comes with no certificate.
Adult education (n.) is like going back for a tool you walked past when it was free.
Adult education (n.) is what you sign up for at thirty to fix what you slept through at fifteen.
Adult education (n.) often begins with a teenage marriage.
An Apprenticeship (n.) is paying for a skill with the years you would have spent guessing.
An Apprenticeship (n.) is years of sweeping the floor before you are trusted with the tool that made the mess.
Apprenticeship (n.) is being useful enough to watch and cheap enough to keep.
Apprenticeship (n.) is hire learning.