Postby Technomancer » Thu May 15, 2008 5:49 am
I'm near to the end of my own (Thank God!). I've had to put up with so much BS from our corporate partners, I really lose sight of why I started this whole thing sometime. I did it because I wanted to go further in my field and to learn more through research.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov