Technology: Black Hat Or White Hat?
Classic Content = White Hat
Technology= Black Hat
Really?
What Makes One Think You Can't Learn Classics With Technology?
Technology= Black Hat
Really?
What Makes One Think You Can't Learn Classics With Technology?
- C.J. Westerberg
Lately, we've been deluged with numerous articles about how technology is ruining our ability to function like human beings, here, making us even more stupid, here, less empathetic, here, and responsible for the destruction of any sensible way of life, let alone education.
"All things are true," is what a dear mentor once told me very early on in my career life. "To what degree?" was his "jolly" rejoinder to most all-encompassing statements. Well, in this case, the degree of technology infiltrating our lives is intense. So, folks, when I read this piece by Stanley Fish, here, in The NY Times, "A Classical Education: Back To the Future," it again reinforces the closed-minded silo-like mentality in the academic sphere.
Fish entices us into believing that there are three disparate views about to be conveyed. The main premise: the need for classic education. Okay, sounds interesting. Classic is a good connotation. Who in their right mind would not want their kids exposed to and reading great classics as a part of their education? Especially those parents reading an education opinion