By Andrew Lohse, Guest Columnist
The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth
Published on Friday, August 19, 2011
RESPONSE:
Mr. Lohse is incorrect in saying "people of color did not speak in the series" I believe President Kim is a speaker on Health Care.
As for Mr. Samwick's arched back over Mr. Lohse's indignation at mercantile values: Mr. Lohse reflects the canyon between the worlds of C.P. Snow's epic work The Two Cultures: Arts v. Sciences.
Since worship of the deity Data has invaded not only primary and secondary education but higher education as well, it is not surprising that a lecture series
called "Leading Voices" at an Ivy League institution would deal primarily with data-driven issues - - - those which are decidedly on the “sciences” side of C.P. Snow’s canyon.
We might as well get used to this metastasizing of data-driven decisions in our society, as reflected in Dartmouth
As computer futurist Jaron Lanier says presciently in his new book You Are Not a Gadget, “What computerized analysis of all the country’s school tests has done to education is exactly what Facebook has done to friendships. In both cases, life is turned into a database.” (kindle 1392 +)
Welcome to “Twenty-first Century” teaching and learning and living.
Paul D. Keane
M.A., M.Div., M.Ed.
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