Even though the root of these words is identical, modern educational universities cause one of the biggest problems in society. The “Professors” have never been “Professionals” in any capacity. Most doctorate recipients haven’t stepped one foot in the professional world. To make it worse, these non-professionals are given “tenure” ensuring they have no accountability to anyone or anything. They are “free to think and innovate” but they have no pragmatic framework for generating anything of actual value for society. It’s this “trickle-down intellectual economics” idea that is destroying modern social workforces. They ideas never fucking leave their overpriced, overly bombastic and verbose text books designed for one purpose: to please the others of their species who will force their subjects to pay for the fucking thing without a choice in the matter. It’s the worst elements of any Leninist economic system. The solution is to separate these people into think tanks and let the rest be actual professionals focused on instruction and mentoring, not teaching, more trades. But while the University set continue to use “practical” as a slur against their academic opponents this will never happen.