21 JAN 2014 by ideonexus

 Technological Humanism

The habit of apprehending a technology in its completeness: this is the essence of technological humanism, and this is what we should expect education in higher technology to achieve. I believe it could be achieved by making specialist studies the core around which are grouped liberal studies which are relevant to these specialist studies. But they must be relevant; the path to culture should be through a man's specialism, not by-passing it.... A student who can weave his technology into the ...
Folksonomies: technology humanism
Folksonomies: technology humanism
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Education in technology should enable a student to "weave" technology into society.

31 MAY 2012 by ideonexus

 In the Long Run, Ignorance Loses

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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The truth is truth and no amount of authoritarianism can change it.