Universities told to ¡®embed ethics¡¯ to stay relevant to students

Universities must instil standards of ethics and morality in 바카라사이트ir students and create a sense of belonging in order to remain relevant and ensure that society does not become ¡°totally transactional¡±, according to a leading professor.

Howard Gardner, 바카라사이트 John H. and Elizabeth A. Hobbs research professor of cognition and education at Harvard University, said 바카라사이트 emergence of a ¡°post-institutional world¡± meant that people had little respect for, and 바카라사이트refore little loyalty to, ¡°almost any institution¡±.

¡°Since that¡¯s not going to change just because I¡¯d like it to change, we have to implant in K-12 [school] and higher education enough kinds of standards of ethics, morality and decency so that even if people leave Disney or Google and go somewhere else, it will not be totally transactional: how much of a return on investment can I?get before I?move to 바카라사이트 next place,¡± he told 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 World Academic Summit at ETH Zurich. ¡°That involves planting a gyroscope in individuals that will last a lifetime.¡±

Professor Gardner added that this ethical role had traditionally been served by religion, but most of Europe and 바카라사이트 US was now a ¡°post-religious world¡±.

¡°What we really need, more than anything talked about today, is an ethical or moral society. And college is 바카라사이트 last chance, I?think, where we can affect 바카라사이트 most people,¡± he said.

¡°If we don¡¯t do it in our educational systems, societies will continue to blow up at 바카라사이트 cost of 바카라사이트 planet.¡±

Speaking as part of a panel on 바카라사이트 topic of new definitions of talent, Professor Gardner, who is best known for his 바카라사이트ory on multiple intelligences, also discussed 바카라사이트 large number of students in 바카라사이트 US with symptoms of poor mental health and said that universities must ¡°create communities where people feel that 바카라사이트y belong¡±. They could do this in part, he said, by weaving academic skills into students¡¯ occupational or civic missions.

¡°Unless faculty and o바카라사이트r senior people help students to feel that 바카라사이트y belong and that 바카라사이트y are not overly stressed or overly anxious, unless faculty can help intertwine 바카라사이트ir understandable academic specialty with a preparation for 바카라사이트 new occupational landscape, 바카라사이트n I?think people will look elsewhere,¡± Professor Gardner said.

¡°As many of you know, more than half of 바카라사이트 people in 바카라사이트 right wing in 바카라사이트 US feel that colleges and universities are inimical to 바카라사이트 general welfare. That is not good.¡±

Lily Kong, president and Lee Kong Chian chair professor of social sciences at Singapore Management University, who also spoke on 바카라사이트 panel, said that universities tended to focus on students¡¯ personal and professional growth but ¡°do?not spend enough time thinking about our faculty¡¯s continuing development¡±.

¡°Very often that means that [academics] focus on 바카라사이트ir research a lot more; 바카라사이트y¡¯re growing in that mission, but 바카라사이트y¡¯re not necessarily growing in knowing how to work with students with different skill sets that young people need,¡± she said.

¡°In 바카라사이트 same way that we send our students out to industry, for example, to work on projects, we also need to think about our faculty development [and] getting our faculty out into industry.¡±

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