Excellent! But higher education is generally seen nowadays as a way of entering a high status career, not for the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, while university heads are administrators/fundraisers/PR people, not scholars. I understand that Claudine Gay has published very little, for example, even ignoring the plagiarism issue.
Thanks, Daniel. Indeed,treasured concepts such as the disinterested pursuit of knowledge and scholarship need to be revived. Preparing students for careers is an important duty of universities--but this should be done while also emphasizing and modelling the love of knowledge for its own sake. The plagiarism issue is a symptom of academic production as a means to an end rather as an end in itself.
Excellent! But higher education is generally seen nowadays as a way of entering a high status career, not for the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, while university heads are administrators/fundraisers/PR people, not scholars. I understand that Claudine Gay has published very little, for example, even ignoring the plagiarism issue.
Thanks, Daniel. Indeed,treasured concepts such as the disinterested pursuit of knowledge and scholarship need to be revived. Preparing students for careers is an important duty of universities--but this should be done while also emphasizing and modelling the love of knowledge for its own sake. The plagiarism issue is a symptom of academic production as a means to an end rather as an end in itself.