Why You Need to Leave Academia in 2015

I don't understand how people can remain calm and soldier on in academia, despite abuse from professors. I personally have a real problem interacting sensibly with people, never mind authority figures, who don't reciprocate respect. This isn't the first story I've heard of professors abusing their authority over students; in fact I had a similar issue with one particular professor when I was in college for my undergrad degree. I eventually confronted this professor and told him exactly what I thought about him, but it should never have come to that in the first place.

On a side note, the author of this article makes an excellent point: many professors are never taught HOW to teach, along with never receiving training on how to manage their academic affairs (the author used funding in this case, but there are other things professors are expected to do that they aren't very good at). It kind of astounds me that universities don't provide this sort of training to their professors.