At the broadest level, institutions do cool stuff for the benefit of society, and in return they get money to do cool stuff and suffer minimal outside interference in so doing. Alex Usher Introduction In the midst of the current financial crisis gripping UK higher education, the question of purpose looms large. What are universities truly for?…
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The case against education, principles for learning, and human restoration
Published November 1, 2019 by Michael Rowe
Too many classrooms at all levels of schooling now resemble a ‘dead zone,’ where any vestige of critical thinking, self-reflection and imagination quickly migrate to sites outside of the school only to be mediated and corrupted by a corporate-driven media culture. Henry A. Giroux Podcast Wiblin, R. & Harris, R. (2018). Economist Bryan Caplan thinks…
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