The Seekers
M.O. Thirunarayanan,
Ubiquity (ACM),
Sept 19, 2001
According to the author, "Students in modern societies can be classified into three groups, namely the 'certification seekers,' the 'degree seekers,' and theCRLF'knowledge seekers.'" The first two groups are looking for pieces of paper to improve their employment opportunities and are less interested in the knowledge those pieces of paper represent. "Researchers, intellectuals, inventors, discoverers, philosophers and thinkers of the future will emerge from the ranks of the 'knowledge seekers,'" the author concludes, and universities will have to find ways to serve them.
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