James Crosswhite

"We have a low view of the enterprise of knowledge and of universities and education when we think of knowledge simply as something that can be transferred like money from one account to another, and of education as a piling up of information and accounting procedures. We in fact diseducate when we are governed by such a model. Controversies are at the heart of many of the most important activities of human societies. Sustaining controversies and preserving competing perspectives is also part of what it means to preserve democratic culture, in which we continue to deliberate about the different goods we seek. Keeping some controversies open can be a way of insisting on our freedom, our freedom to change our minds or to create something new or to adapt to new conditions. Few of our achievements are unambiguously and absolutely good. Keeping the controversies in sight and learning to live with them in a humane and intelligent way, is an essential ethical capability. It is a requirement for living with one another in a humane and intelligent way."… (plus d'informations)