21st century university education has many
problems. For many countries, and in particular the USA, it is too expensive; students
graduate with debts in the high 5 figures guaranteed to hamstring them. The
disciplinary structure is wrong; subjects like Cognitive science are termed
“interdisciplinary” simply because they were invented after the fossilization
of departments.
Educationally, matters are worse. The lack of an overall
theory of the person and her relation to knowledge has allowed in rampant
subjectivism, exemplified by postmodernism. That has had negative effects on
society as a whole as the most highly educated plea for the aesthetic
equivalence of Mozart and Pit bull, and the moral equivalence of Matthieu
Ricard and Pol Pot. The career path open
to postgraduate students involves a grueling and almost interminable
subjugation. This has led to fraud and stasis in science
All these issues can quickly be resolved. The university
should be a joint stock system with graduates holding a controlling stake. A
Weltschauung, one that unites the narratives of the sciences, arts, and
humanities, an d the consensual moral order it involves, is within our grasp.
Knowledge can be reparsed with, ironically, Cognitive science as the
quintessential academic subject. Finally, all of this can be done at next to no
cost and in a way that fosters innovation.
Some resources
universityofireland.com
Irish studies
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