The silly member of the “Academented” under discussion, clearly never understood the relationship between ‘true north’ and ‘magnetic north’.
Like many of the “Academented”, he likely would have difficulty reading a map, much less being able to steer without a copy of Navigation For Dummies.
That is not his main problem, which is that he would probably say, "I am one of the intellectual elite! I do not NEED to steer any particular course, let alone require this simplistic instruction manual."
Hey, compasses are racist and insensitive to people who live in the Southern Hemisphere!
Who knew?