Just a few outlining notes on the relationship between science and the act of education, or rather; what is the relationship between information and knowledge?
Science produces information that is socially constructed, which is not to say that every item of information is not 'real' but, or that phenomena are relative*, just that that these objects exist objectively from the experience people have of it.**
Education is the process whereby individuals gain the skills to, not only acknowledge the interconnectedness of information but to do so effectively and more importantly critically.*** I think, perhaps, Knowlege is the product of this process. Retention of both information and knowledge is another important facet that holds both phenomena together.
Anyway, what will be the result when both the outputs of science and education are based on the need for profit rather than the need for an educated people?
* Thinking of theorists like Paul Feyerabend
** For a much more indepth talk on this read Roy Baskhar and others of the realist and critical realist tradition.
*** The first few chapters in Friere's 'Pedogogy of the Oppressed' is a must read.
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