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Learning not only as a lifetime habit, but as an entertainment, impressing itself by choice upon those free moments when one decides, almost absently, to see what's interesting on the Web? When one checks one's email discussions rather than turning on Ricki Lake or 60 Minutes? Can people be trained, disciplined from their own inclinations and a total access to knowledge, or are coercive institutions (bells, classes, assignments, grades, certification) a necessary condition for society's learning?
Like medieval monks in the fifteenth century, many of us are facing displacement. A new breed of knowledge-makers is on the horizon, bringing a new breed of knowledge. The ACW and Kairos are searching out the all important seam between the old and the new, that place where we can cross the divide without falling into a gap of self-absorbed, self-imposed, and futile isolation.
Fred Kemp
Texas Tech
f.kemp@ttu.edu