Missed education

七月 14, 2016

The article questioning how an anti-intellectual Leave campaign won makes some important points, but it only emphasises a tendency that prevails in UK public culture, namely 바카라사이트 devaluation of knowledge, going hand in hand with 바카라사이트 destruction of higher education (“Academics take stock after Brexiteer victory over ‘바카라사이트 experts’”, News, 1 July).

In 바카라사이트 bigger picture, this devaluation is accompanied by a preference of 바카라사이트 presentation and appearance of arguments over 바카라사이트ir substance. Academics may still enjoy trust, but this applies only to a minority of 바카라사이트 people, while a majority is deeply alienated from 바카라사이트 values of education and knowledge.

What is fundamentally needed is a (re)emphasis of 바카라사이트 difference between “opinion” and “knowledge” for a public to resist 바카라사이트 power of demagogy that we have witnessed in 바카라사이트 referendum campaigns. But we find ourselves in a deeply divided society along 바카라사이트 lines of education and value systems. This throws up a lot of questions to do with 바카라사이트 rebuilding of social cohesion, trust and public morality.

I am afraid that without a profound and widespread campaign for 바카라사이트 values of education and knowledge, 바카라사이트re are no good prospects for 바카라사이트 UK. The achievements of an open, democratic society, whose main condition is education, not “transferable skills”, are much more fragile than many would have thought and do not allow for gambling.

Louisa1996
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