This post is about how academics present themselves. Often, on a faculty page, an academic will write pages about himself, or herself. This morning I looked up my Systematic Theology professor in the USA (looking a bit older, I might add). There are twenty-eight pages about him: education, biography, courses, publications, awards, ordinations, and so on. Then I looked up my Systematic Theology professor in South Africa. He has this to say about himself, in full:
OBSERVATION: That about seems to sum up the man, too: get the job done, do it efficiently, do it correctly, don't pay any attention to human accolades. In fact, in general this seems to be more typically South African.
D.Th.
OBSERVATION: That about seems to sum up the man, too: get the job done, do it efficiently, do it correctly, don't pay any attention to human accolades. In fact, in general this seems to be more typically South African.
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