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1999-10-01 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Via Hack the Planet, an interview with Roger Schank on how universities have lost sight of their function, with some hope that perhaps for everything we're losing by going to "the virtual university", we're gaining because this is a chance to shift points of view:

To put this another way, everyone involved in the drama of indifferent education, faculty, students, and administrators, knows that the real role of our universities is certification not education.

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