"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." (Aristotle)
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The division of knowledge
into disciplines and departments is a division of labor that is supposed
to increase expertise and efficiency. But the modern university is no more
suited to the postmodern world than industrial modes of production are equipped
to meet the demands of electronic reproduction. To shift from the industrial
to the post-industrial model for the university is to transform the modern
into the postmodern university. The postmodern university will more closely
resemble the decentered, disseminated and non-heirarchical "structure"
of the net than the centered, segmented and heirarchical structure of the
assembly line. In sum, the postmodern university is not a uni-versity
but a multi-versity. (from Imagologies)
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All men [and women]
who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own
education. (Sir
Walter Scott)
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