Start Date
4-1969 8:00 AM
Description
The American University system is undergoing a thorough revolution, as can be seen from the most casual, perusal of the newspapers or from serious discussions. 1 A dozen irritated Canadians recently presented a series of essays which entertained the horrifying possibility that the present University is now so bad as to be irrelevant to education! 2 For example, they ask if the University has degenerated to just a training school of necessary personnel for corporate industry requirements, "The Multiversity is a place in which the claim of institutional continuity and efficiency come to head-on collision with its educational aims; the latter are normally wiped off the map." (Reference 2, p. 74). Such criticisms are also found in the caveats of the serious drop-out and hippie critic of our establishment. Paul Krassner, The Mr. Yippie, recently suggested that the Yippies were the prototype of the totally-leisure class which could soon be the result of our technological advances. Perhaps a continuous commitment to life-long education would provide the "leisure civilization" with viable activities.
The Use of Technology in Revolutionizing Academia
The American University system is undergoing a thorough revolution, as can be seen from the most casual, perusal of the newspapers or from serious discussions. 1 A dozen irritated Canadians recently presented a series of essays which entertained the horrifying possibility that the present University is now so bad as to be irrelevant to education! 2 For example, they ask if the University has degenerated to just a training school of necessary personnel for corporate industry requirements, "The Multiversity is a place in which the claim of institutional continuity and efficiency come to head-on collision with its educational aims; the latter are normally wiped off the map." (Reference 2, p. 74). Such criticisms are also found in the caveats of the serious drop-out and hippie critic of our establishment. Paul Krassner, The Mr. Yippie, recently suggested that the Yippies were the prototype of the totally-leisure class which could soon be the result of our technological advances. Perhaps a continuous commitment to life-long education would provide the "leisure civilization" with viable activities.
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