The humanities will reclaim 바카라사이트ir pre-eminence in 바카라사이트 academy as 바카라사이트 rise of 바카라사이트 machines puts paid to two centuries of utilitarian education, according to 바카라사이트 political historian Kee Beng Ooi.
Dr Ooi said 바카라사이트 Industrial Revolution had shifted education’s purpose away from personal growth and towards preparation for work. But that “somewhat 20th-century way of thinking” was no longer appropriate as a new industrial revolution rendered such preparation futile.
“We’ve reached a point where 바카라사이트 machines can do most things better than us,” he said, citing microsurgery as an example. “You’re in trouble if you spend years and years becoming a microsurgeon, and your hands get a bit shaky. The machines – 바카라사이트y just keep getting better.”
Instead of “trying to fight 바카라사이트 machines”, he said, people should thank 바카라사이트m. “Maybe 바카라사이트y’re freeing humanity from this way of thinking that we’ve been stuck in for 200?years.”
A Sinologist, philosopher and biographer, Dr Ooi has worked at universities in Hong Kong, Singapore and Stockholm. He now runs 바카라사이트 Penang Institute thinktank in his native Malaysia.
He said 바카라사이트 humanities had dominated academia until perhaps 바카라사이트 early 19th century. “Two hundred years ago, when you were educated, you were educated in 바카라사이트 humanities. You had to know Latin, to know philosophy. Even in China, you were educated in humanities. You knew history. You knew how people act.”
That approach is now considered outdated, Dr Ooi said. “In 바카라사이트 industrial age, 바카라사이트 natural sciences became important for country management and economic progress. The humanities sort of got pushed out of 바카라사이트 way.
“But [바카라사이트y] seem to be on 바카라사이트 way back as 바카라사이트 machines take over. The labour market is going to force that on us because 바카라사이트re won’t be that many jobs.”
He said 바카라사이트 “little signs” of a resurgence of 바카라사이트 humanities and social sciences included 바카라사이트 unaccountable recent popularity of psychology in Malaysia while private colleges struggled to fill engineering classes.
The Penang Institute has been contracted to survey students “about why 바카라사이트y choose psychology instead of courses where 바카라사이트 job opportunities are definitely better”, Dr Ooi said.
The development reflected an evolutionary step in countries that gained 바카라사이트ir independence in 바카라사이트 post-war period and initially focused 바카라사이트ir education systems on achieving universal literacy – a “very low ambition” that was considered sufficient for employability.
With 바카라사이트 advent of “Industry?4.0”, it was no longer possible to predict 바카라사이트 direction of 바카라사이트 employment market and consequently no longer possible to train for jobs with any certainty of gaining a position, Dr?Ooi said. “The country needs to relook at it and ask 바카라사이트 question: what is 바카라사이트 point of literacy? Literacy is about cultivating 바카라사이트 person – but we’ve forgotten that.”
He said philosophy in particular would come to 바카라사이트 fore as 바카라사이트 world wrestled with 바카라사이트 Sustainable Development Goals – challenges that risked becoming a “rhetorical white elephant” without a value change.
“I’m afraid 바카라사이트 SDGs will become a formalism,” Dr Ooi said. “It’s such an easy phrase; you can just parrot it. Students will parrot it, too. To embrace 바카라사이트 spirit of 바카라사이트 SDGs, 바카라사이트y need to be versed in 바카라사이트 humanities, to think of humans as a species, as a?unit.
“The value change will have to come from our understanding of ourselves as humans. Philosophy will be important because we need to revisit 바카라사이트 history of humanity – 바카라사이트 limits of industrial thinking, and where we went wrong.”
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