As usual, there’s plenty to be worried about: the steady evaporation of full-time teaching positions, the overuse and abuse of adjunct professors, the slashing of public funding, the shrinkage of course offerings and majors in humanities disciplines, the increase of student debt, the peddling of technologies as magic bullets, the ubiquitous description of students as consumers.
adjunct: something added to other thing but not the essential to it
peddling: act of selling goods
What would these Fausts have given for such knowledge?
Fausts: Someone who can do anything for knowledge
They are apt to endorse the partition plan proposed by Stephen Jay Gould in his worst book, Rocks of Ages, according to which the proper concerns of science and religion belong to “non-overlapping magisteria.” Science gets the empirical universe; religion gets the questions of moral meaning and value.
Unfortunately, this entente unravels as soon as you begin to examine it. The moral worldview of any scientifically literate person—one who is not blinkered by fundamentalism—requires a radical break from religious conceptions of meaning and value.
entente: alignment
blinkered: parochial, spotted
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities
adjunct: something added to other thing but not the essential to it
peddling: act of selling goods
What would these Fausts have given for such knowledge?
Fausts: Someone who can do anything for knowledge
an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
They are apt to endorse the partition plan proposed by Stephen Jay Gould in his worst book, Rocks of Ages, according to which the proper concerns of science and religion belong to “non-overlapping magisteria.” Science gets the empirical universe; religion gets the questions of moral meaning and value.
Unfortunately, this entente unravels as soon as you begin to examine it. The moral worldview of any scientifically literate person—one who is not blinkered by fundamentalism—requires a radical break from religious conceptions of meaning and value.
entente: alignment
blinkered: parochial, spotted
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114127/science-not-enemy-humanities
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