Tom Morris – The university is over

Tom Morris: Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I have access to the Reading Room at the British Library and a borrowing pass at the University of London library. I have Google at my fingertips twenty-four hours a day.

Illich’s “learning webs” are just a click away, as is Socratic dialogue, as is the largest encyclopedia ever created.

The university experience is going to become like the movie-going experience. It’ll be something that people do for the experience rather than for the substance, because, as with Hollywood, the substance has gone.

Educational institutions that don’t realise they are becoming Napsterised are deluding themselves. When Facebook launches a ‘learning’ application, you guys will be dead.