A herd of elephants

Few days ago in a lecture I had a vision. Professor was talking something about something, which is soooo important to somebody and then the ironic vision hit my mind. The vision reflects my perception of how the professors come up with their topics and how they try to articulate it to us, students...

...imagine a herd of elephants (i.e.big companies) walking with pride in savannah from one patch of grass to another, from one water pond to another (i.e. profit opportunities). Nearby you can see a bunch of nature scientists (i.e.business academia) following the elephants, inspecting their tracks, gathering excrements and following elephants' all the way.
At the end of each day the scientists analyze data, think a lot, draw conclusions, rise assumpotions and hypotheses. Later on they will try to teach elephants how to find a better way around savannah and where to find a bigger pond of water or a patch of grass. However elephants won't lisen much to the scientists. They just go to the next water pond or a patch of grass.

Then scientists would decide to errect special schools and universities, where they, instead of teaching elephants, would rather teach special kind of people, namely students.
The students are yet neither elephants nor scientists. But later they can become one of these.
Interestingly, it is very difficult to become an elephant without attending the classes given by scientists...

That was my vision while listening to one of the *scientists* talking about *elephants* of the savannah. If you still feel the taste of a dry and academic business lecture, you will understand the allegory.