Murray Simpson on Mon, 7 May 2012 20:43:59 +0200 (CEST) |
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"Not more likely" or perhaps just "not more than likely"? I'm not ready to feel quite that depressed about the potential of universities. Best Murray On 07/05/2012 11:44, "colin hodson" <colinhodson@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Marc, > >I agree, 'critical thinking' is not more likely to occur in these >institutions. But I do think a lot of people are not only exposed to >critical theory via university (often for the first time), but are forced >to engage with it via essays and discussion where an independent reader >might be left much more to their own devices. It might just be my >experience, but without a big dose of it for a few years, and having >friends with a college experience of the same stuff for me to reflect my >thought off of, I would be much less versed in it than I am now. The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org