Practitioners and Professors

A conjecture: Academics in normative disciplines like law, management, engineering, accounting, pharmacy, applied psychology, etc. are hampered by ambivalence.  is one seeking the truth or trying to promote the good on behalf of one's charges?   One is doing both, and that ambivalence in one's motives makes one less efficacious than one might be in pursuit of either goal, and rightly suspect by academic colleagues with a more single-minded commitment to truth.  On the other hand, practitioners seeking the good may be helped by training in normative disciplines compared to training in disciplines with a single-minded commitment to truth.