More discoveries originate in the garage than in the university laboratory. As Pirsig points out early in the book, demonstration and experimentation are vastly different. The university is about methodology and retrospect. A practitioner already owns the methods, and can function without the retrospect. Academia does not embrace the artist.
Academia embraces the artist only after the art has survived time.
The philosopher is not in the university classroom. The artist is not in the university classroom. The scientist is not in the university classroom. The mathematician is not in the university classroom. The university classroom is full of professors lecturing about art and artists thereby producing copies of themselves.