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As a fellow academic I totally agree - people outside really don't know what it takes to run a successful course - it's not just wandering in and rambling for an hour about stuff you like, it's highly structured, requires a lot of preparation and thought, not to mention having to deal with exams, marking, organisation, and students' pastoral care. Sometimes I think our own universities don't know how long marking takes - my current workload says I should be able to mark a Masters dissertation in an hour! Hahahahaha yeah right.