Knowledge For Wisdom, Not Acquisition

Academia screwed up, writes Nicholas Maxwell, and we need a revolution to fix it. “We urgently need to bring about a third intellectual revolution, one which corrects the blunders of the Enlightenment revolution, so that the basic aim of academia becomes to promote wisdom, and not just acquire knowledge. Every branch and aspect of academic inquiry needs to change if we are to have the kind of inquiry, both more rational and of greater human value, that we really need.”