an/(one's) ivory tower

A place or a social circle that is characterized by effete academic intelligence and thus is out of touch with or aloof from the realities of life. I don't put much weight in the advice of a bunch of economists living in their ivory towers who've never worked a real job in their lives. It seemed easy to solve all the world's problems when I was living in an ivory tower. Now that I'm out of college, I realize things are so much more complex than I'd imagined.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Carme (1)	KAR-me (Galician)	Galician, Catalan
Idun	-	Norse Mythology
DÁNjal	-	Faroese
Uzochi	-	Western African, Igbo
Beatty	['beti]
NoemÍ	no-e-MEE (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese