His comfortable view was that "the sensible and interesting conversations of a woman of merit are more proper to form a young man than all the Pedantical philosophy of books."
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
D. is quite unnecessary in order to be academic in this sense, just as one does not have to be a scholar in order to be Pedantical.
"Definitions"
Henry Seidel Canby