Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 11:29:18 AM
Subject: suggestions for next aim hard/software upgrade
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>Hi, just a few thoughts on what we might ask santa for in the new year…
Making industry pay each student 50K per year for the uncritical
embrace of their products and degrading the public nature of university
education
the understanding of the political nature of products bought with public
money in a public institution. The understanding that both the Internet and
Computers were invented by universities and it is only recently that the
‘brand name’ and product based companies have
entered universities.
the understanding of the difference between education and training.
the understanding of where a public institution positions itself beside
private enterprise.
the understanding of the difference between a university and a training
institute.
the understanding that technology is political not ‘rational’.
the understanding that the best universities in the world have a healthy
critical distance and a healthy understanding of the other knowledge
centres in the community ie. industry, marketing, sales etc. and are
critical and can contextualise and evaluate the products and propaganda
that industry produce.