And then some days it occurs to you that the intellectual, public to the extent of belonging to the ideal of the learning institution and its disinterested truth, doesn't need to be successful as far as the conventions of distorted economy.  If the learning institution itself abandons its mission, adapting to a corporate money and influence, then there's not much point belonging to it.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19654-public-intellectuals-against-the-neoliberal-university

Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University

Tuesday, 29 October 2013 09:16By Henry A Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed