Once in the academy an interesting division occurs, a metamorphosis of sorts. This categorization, for the most part self-willed, largely determines the nature of the sojourn in the academy and informs the scope of the search for truth. For some members of the academy, analogous to Plato's brave, their resort to the repository of truth is more restful than resourceful. Higher education is expected to write with an omniscient finger upon their comfortably blank slates. Their rare forays into inquiry are constrained rather than contrived.
Scholarship has no place here.
The watchword is expediency. The brave seem to be a robust group indeed. But for others in the community, the specter of scholarship steps out of the shadows and taps incessantly on a shoulder. The seeker of knowledge becomes a consumer and processor of information to produce a product, and pragmatism prevails. The specter of scholarship beats a hasty retreat.