Posted by Mezei on September 03, 1999 at 11:07:53:

In Reply to: Re: Beyond the "Stovepipes" of Industry & Academia posted by Reilly Atkinson on September 02, 1999 at 21:46:22:

If I have a bit of bias against university, its simply because the BS meter goes on alert whenever the bureaucracy of knowledge is given weight over enquiry. But that true in business, government, etc. The thing is, when we go to university, we expect a university setting to provide a means to an end. The expectation is built in because 'learning' is at the core of any university curriculum. But like all bureaucracies, eventually the true reason behind its existence gets subjugated, so a person say, that wants to develop new ideas, really new ideas, goes over to this professor, or that professor, but finds little in common. I once attended a philosophy lecture about 6 years ago, where I couldn't understand a single sentence. So afterwards, during questions, I managed to outline what I was trying to do, and the professor, who I found very interesting anyway, said, well if you can do it, you would be the first. So he understood what I was trying to do. You know, really, the whole impetus behind a university, in the ideal world, would be knowledge unification. Because it is a subject onto itself, once breached. I was telling my wife the other day, you know, philosophy as a subject doesn't really exist. The SEARCH for philosophy is what exists. The desire to find a common basis for all philosophical arguments is what exists. Philosophy is merely a doorway into which we enter to begin our enquiry. Until unification occurs, does a subject really exist? No, only the enquiry into that subject heading. So subjects, until unified, are really subjects of enquiry.

Don

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