In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education
American Association of University Professors, 2020/01/20
The Americal Asssociation of University Professors has published an interesting, if possibly controversial, statement in defense of knowledge (or, as I would cat it after reading it, in defense of experts). But as Dave Cormier says in a recent podcast, universities are not the exclusive domain of knowledge any more, and for (almost) any fact, you can find someone equally educated who will disagree with that fact. More...