https://chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Death-of-the/228991/
"From Cape Town to Reykjavik, Sydney to São Paulo, an event as momentous
in its own way as the Cuban revolution or the invasion of Iraq is
steadily under way: the slow death of the university as a center of
humane critique. Universities, which in Britain have an 800-year
history, have traditionally been derided as ivory towers, and there was
always some truth in the accusation. Yet the distance they established
between themselves and society at large could prove enabling as well as
disabling, allowing them to reflect on the values, goals, and interests
of a social order too frenetically bound up in its own short-term
practical pursuits to be capable of much self-criticism."
A certain amount of fusty tetchiness, but still an amusing and
worthwhile rant.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
