A good idea, I’d think. “The student must be capable of solving a problem they have never encountered before using information they must acquire on their own.” I wish I could come up with a way of testing for that that scales.
You are welcome. I’m glad to have given you a new thing to think about. Just do be warned that I might be wrong. I acquired my philosophy education in a very piecemeal fashion and occasionally worrying gaps emerge.
Well, sometimes it’s a question of a fundamental disagreement on what the word means and the lack of anything resembling a consensus (just try to have people agree on what ‘the west’ means), and sometimes it’s a word with a powerful affect than many groups try to claim as their own or to foist on their opponents, just like the Family Values crowd trying to claim ‘family’ or a pair of people on the Internet going “No, you are the Nazi!” a each other.
Oh, easy, I pick on academia because I work in academia. It’s all in my own back yard and I can do things from time to time to fix it. I can’t really affect the horrible things happening in business and, as my various trips to the voting booth (the futility hutch, as I like to think of it) have shown me, I can’t really do much about politics either.
Also, Academia is important insofar as a properly educated populace is key to solving the business and politics problems, too.
