Schmidt (ANU Chancellor) revealed on Tuesday that Ramsay representatives wanted to set up a management committee with equal numbers from the Ramsay Centre and the ANU, and to conduct “health checks” by sitting in on classes to assess the lecturers and material taught.
Depends on what you mean by disaster... — Mr Phil O'Sophy
As Will Durant often writes....man is a trousered Ape. — Marcus de Brun
As Will Durant often writes....man is a trousered Ape. — Marcus de Brun
Subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools," it uses that as a starting point for a defense of objective value and natural law as well as a warning of the consequences of doing away with or "debunking" those things. It defends science as something worth pursuing but criticizes using it to debunk values, the value of science itself being among them, or defining it to exclude such values.
I think a distinction can be made between modern post-industrial globalism and ‘Western Civliisation’. — Wayfarer
That, I believe, is actually an expression of C S Lewis, taken from his book, The Abolition of Man. — Wayfarer
Has "Western civilization" been a disaster? — Srap Tasmaner
I'd also like to hear arguments that my whole approach is wrong and the culprit is how we think, the Western worldview, an instrumental view of the world, that sort of thing. — Srap Tasmaner
He called his talk ‘The Insufficiency of Liberalism’ and it was an exposition of what he termed the ‘three stages of development’. The first great leap, he said, was made when man moved from stage one of primitive religiosity to stage two of scientific realism. This was the stage modern man tended to be at. Then, he said, some people become dissatisfied with scientific realism, perceiving its deficiencies, and realize that there is something beyond fact and science. Such people progress to a higher plane of development which he called stage three. The problem, he explained, was that stage one and stage three looked exactly the same to those in stage two. Consequently, those in stage three are seen as having had some sort of brainstorm, a relapse into childish nonsense. Only those in stage three, who have been through stage two, can understand the difference between stage one and stage three. 1
Guns don't kill people; people do — Srap Tasmaner
The problem then is not just the force multipliers, but the environment in which our children are raised which promotes this version of 'human nature' and not any other, more desirable version. — Pseudonym
Is there only the one way of raising children in the European tradition -- and it's the wrong one -- or is the problem that at least two ways are available, at least one of them is the wrong one, and children raised one of the wrong ways "automatically" have a disproportionate impact on their environments (human and otherwise) and giving them force multipliers only makes the problem worse? — Srap Tasmaner
Imperialist Metaphysical System Builders, with their water-cooled rapid-fire logical systems — Srap Tasmaner
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