By Paul Balles, the Gulf Daily News
McLuhan wrote: “Our entire educational system is reactionary, oriented to past values and past technologies and will likely continue so until the old generation relinquishes power.” The old generation only began to relinquish power within the last 10 years. Many academics are still hanging on for dear life. What are they hanging on to? They’re hanging onto classrooms, sitting at uncomfortable desks at inconvenient hours, surrounded by bare walls and smelly students… More than anything, they’re holding on to dull lectures by boring professors. Some still dictate to students from outdated notes they took when they were students.
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