… Current debates about the university, in China and the West, have converged. Both traditions, the Confucian ethic and democratic education as modernization, are undermined by state-driven economic instrumentalism, by modernization simply reduced to enrichment. In both China and the West it is said by many observers that the university has ‘lost its soul’.
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Simon Marginson, The modern university must reinvent itself to survive (2011-Mar-30) theconversation.edu.au |
