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UWI is an INTELLECTUAL GHETTO:
"The University of the West Indies was established to prepare the intelligentsia to administer the newly-formed nation-state and embark on the agenda of nation-building. As such, UWI existed as an economic protectorate and held a monopoly in a small higher education industry. It is interesting to note that to date UWI has not produced entrepenuers that have the wherewithal to provide it with significant endowments. This is a reflection of the fact that its primary purpose was to train the intelligentsia to work in a bureaucracy that to a large extent has been isolated from modern industry. The changes that have been unfolding during the last 25 years are rendering UWI obsolete as new demands are being placed on all the socail classes in the society.
The intelligentsia does not have a scientific understanding of the process of capitalist globalisation and the implications for the world in which they live. At a general level it reflects the crisis of an educational system which fragments knowledge, separating the natural and technical sciences from the social sciences rendering their respective practitioners almost unable to communicate with one another. The intelligensia was never trained to understand the process of development and change."
Now if THAT is not the definition of an Intellectual Ghetto then I do not know what is.
I suspect y'all are hung up on the term "Ghetto". This hang up is probably born of ignorance.
Ghetto:
Something that resembles the RESTRICTION OR ISOLATION of a city Ghetto.
There is a reason why it is called THE THINKING MANS PROGRAM... if you are not a THINKING MAN one is prone to leap to all manners of incorrect conclusions.
"The University of the West Indies was established to prepare the intelligentsia to administer the newly-formed nation-state and embark on the agenda of nation-building. As such, UWI existed as an economic protectorate and held a monopoly in a small higher education industry. It is interesting to note that to date UWI has not produced entrepenuers that have the wherewithal to provide it with significant endowments. This is a reflection of the fact that its primary purpose was to train the intelligentsia to work in a bureaucracy that to a large extent has been isolated from modern industry. The changes that have been unfolding during the last 25 years are rendering UWI obsolete as new demands are being placed on all the socail classes in the society.
The intelligentsia does not have a scientific understanding of the process of capitalist globalisation and the implications for the world in which they live. At a general level it reflects the crisis of an educational system which fragments knowledge, separating the natural and technical sciences from the social sciences rendering their respective practitioners almost unable to communicate with one another. The intelligensia was never trained to understand the process of development and change."
Now if THAT is not the definition of an Intellectual Ghetto then I do not know what is.
I suspect y'all are hung up on the term "Ghetto". This hang up is probably born of ignorance.
Ghetto:
Something that resembles the RESTRICTION OR ISOLATION of a city Ghetto.
There is a reason why it is called THE THINKING MANS PROGRAM... if you are not a THINKING MAN one is prone to leap to all manners of incorrect conclusions.
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