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/^t/Academic staff, together with students, create a world of its own, a vacuum for which nothing from the outside world is of any interest and hardly anything out of it is applicable beyond its boundaries. Universities are totally isolated from the outside world, scholars focus on some abstract disputes rather on their possible implications. Instead coming up with theory-based solutions for today's problems, scientists stick to their useless theories in which nobody is interested except themselves.