Education
number of people with firsthand experience in the land dwindles. Rural populations continue to shift to
the cities.... In the wake of this loss of personal and local knowledge, the knowledge from which a real
geography is derived, the knowledge on which a country must ultimately stand, has come something
hard to define but I think sinister and unsettling."
In the confusion of data with knowledge is a deeper mistake that learning will make us better people.
But learning, as Loren Eiseley once said, is endless and "In itself it will never make us ethical
[people]." Ultimately, it may be the knowledge of the good that is most threatened by all of our other
advances. All things considered, it is possible that we are becoming more ignorant of the things we
must know to live well and sustainably on the Earth.
A fourth myth of higher education is that we can adequately restore that which we have dismantled. In
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