Technology has radically changed the way we relate to each other and to the world. Ubiquity, instantaneous responses, the ability to transform our environment and transport us from one place to another are just some examples that break with what we had traditionally understood as a model of life.
The abandonment of the humanities that allow reflection, analysis and preparation of critical thinking has been one of the first consequences of this changing world that we have before us. Instead, it is committed to an applied knowledge, which allows producing X concept / object from which to obtain a benefit. Doing is winning the battle to know.
But then, what should universities teach? Observing this tendency, we can affirm how far the platonic vision of the university is as an Academy, from a place that treasures knowledge, a meeting place for critical thinking and discussion of ideas. Thus, far from teaching models of behavior and behavior that correspond to virtuous habits, the know-how prevails in the classrooms.
Economists and political parties engage in debates of numbers and numbers, but the world and people need to solve problems with human values (apart from technique). Some of the darkest stages that humanity has given birth to have been, precisely, to persist in reducing people to simple data; for betting on technical knowledge and leaving ethics aside.
https://es.unesco.org/courier/2018-1/universidad-y-democracia-credulos
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