universities

  • The idea of a university (updated)

    So I’m reading John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University, which begins by asserting that the university “is a place of teaching universal knowledge”. I’m fascinated by the historical context (Catholicism in Protestant England), by the strength and substance of the ideas, and by the narrative style of carefully-constructed arguments. I’m also struck, however, by the…

    Aerial view of Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States (oberlin.edu)
  • LSi.io interviews Plan B’s Donald Clark: Universities and humanitarian organizations in the Age of Disruption

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    Donald Clark is an education innovator with no institutional ties to refrain him from telling it like it is. He answers three questions from LSi.io‘s Reda Sadki: Zach Sims at Davos referred to university brick-and-mortar structures as the “detritus” of a bygone area. Agree or disagree? We all remember Sebastian Thrun’s predictions about the impending…

    Plan B's Donald Clark