Jenny Mackness summarizes a talk by Iain McGilchrist, who has recently been made Chancellor of Ralston College, succeeding Jordan Peterson. "For McGilchrist universities are the cornerstones of civilisation; they are of medieval origin... These days, McGilchrist told us, tradition has a bad reputation, because it is being ossified, but he said, tradition is inherently dynamic, a living phenomenon. Universities must introduce a grounding of tradition because nothing creative can be done without tradition." It seems to me to be the usual call for universities to gt back to basics, back to their original foundation and intention, which really does not seem like a very good idea to me.
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