We have built institutions that teach people how to think, then reward them for knowing when not to.
Tag: academic freedom
Doctoral research promises original thought, but the institutional machinery that recognises and rewards knowledge systematically reproduces precisely that ignorance it exists to supersede.
I went to a School of Cybernetics hoping to develop ideas about how systems organise and reproduce themselves. My experience instead prompted an unexpected examination of institutional authority, intellectual exclusion and the patterns through which institutions reproduce themselves.
