Word: incantational
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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There is a second myth which functions also in the upper echelons of Faculty and pupils. This myth is the Fiction of Hard Work: "proper pay for quite unusual extremes of toil, labor and responsibility." The student learns to think, incant, believe (so also do his teachers, tutors, Deans) that intellectual work is, in itself, exceptionally oppressive, burdensome or overwhelming. There is, indeed, a quite pervasive myth that labors like these are possibly more difficult, more burdensome, and more exacting, than the less-rewarded work of physical day labor. University professors really do believe that this is difficult work. They...
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