There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.