Chris Kanyane

Universities Have Reached A Turning Point And They Refused To Turn



Posted: Sunday, February 27, 2011

by Chris Kanyane
Global Center For Research World Wide

The purpose of universities and colleges of higher learning is to meet the learning needs and aspirations of individuals through the development of their intellectual abilities and aptitudes. Universities and colleges of higher learning equip individuals to make the best use of their talents. Further a university or college is responsible for the socialization of enlightened, responsible and constructively critical people. People of this nature presuppose a commitment to the common good of humanity and keeping with the times of life, it also implies a reflective capacity and a willingness to review and renew prevailing ideas, policies and practices.

With the coming of the modern era of instant communication and engagements through social media, the existing university system that requires people to be housed in a campus has failed to adjust. The existing higher education system is hung up on residential examinations where lecturers dictate to students, questions to answer and provide clear guidelines on answering those questions. The existing university system is hung up on routine, stereotyped, and is unimaginative and constraining. It discourages initiative and stifles originality. It forces students to cram and professors to prepare strait jacket syllabi on sterile isolated subjects.

The final exams mania has turned tests of achievement into achievement itself and is producing generations imbued with the dread of innovation and initiative. The university professors are avoiding giving students skills of curiosity only dull academic dogma in the false name of academic rigor and tradition.. And what is the result? The cult success derived from clever spotting of exam questions, successful cheating and sheer luck.
Dr Chris Kanyane has Ph.D (History) obtained from Central Western University, Arlington, Texas (US). He is the author of two historical biographical books; Turfloop and Eugen Weber Greatest Historian Of Our Times: Lessons of Greatness To The Future.

Dr Chris Kanyane will work long and hard in helping you to dig your life story out of your spiritual reservoir with a mixture of encouragement and research – for more details contact www.globalresearchcentre.org

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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)
» left by Jennifer Stewart
 1 year 59 days ago.
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I so agree with you. Education stopped being about developing minds, souls and hearts long ago.
» left by David Tanguay
 1 year 59 days ago.
186 fans.
Education use to be interesting, to learn out of curiosity's sake. Now it's all about achieving status in society.
» left by Drunken Mystic 1 year 58 days ago.
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Perfectly said!
» left by David Levitt
 1 year 57 days ago.
29 fans.
Liberal arts are becoming a thing of the past. The art of denouncing liberation a thing of the future. Assimilation need not be taught, merely abided by.
» left by Teresa Ortiz
 1 year 55 days ago.
186 fans.
Hello Chris. Sad that this is true for the most part. It looks to me like many of our universities are all about sports.
 
Thanks for a well written piece. Blessings to you! Teresa
» left by Ken McCreless
 1 year 55 days ago.
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"The final exams mania has turned tests of achievement into achievement itself ." Sad, but true, as evidenced by the incompetent, yet credentialed, in our world.
 
Great article.
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