Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, invites the public to the highly popular three part BBS Public Awareness Seminar Series, the first in the series featuring the topic of education.
What is education? Let us invite Noam Chomsky to introduce Bertrand Russell. His humanistic conception should be understood in context of a gardener nurturing a young tree.
EVENT: BBS Public Awareness Seminar Series – The Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: Noam Chomsky
SPEAKER: Dr. HR Ahmad, Professor of Physiology, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
DATE: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
TIME: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. local time
VENUE: The Aga Khan University (AKU), Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan – Lecture Hall 1
Learning Outcomes:
What is education? Let us invite Noam Chomsky to introduce Bertrand Russell. His humanistic conception should be understood in context of a gardener nurturing a young tree. It will develop into an admirable form, given proper soil, air and light. This analogy refers to an individual human’s growth which for too many seems to be difficult because the soil and the freedom required for it are immeasurably difficult to find or provide. The solution may lie in Bertrand Russell’s libertarian concepts of education.
He defines education as an activity directed towards the world that we want our efforts to create. It should not aim at passive awareness of dead facts. Its goal should be to elicit and fortify whatever creative energy a human possesses. In the modern world, the principle of growth in most of us is hampered by tradition imbibed by laws of the simpler age and institutions built around it. Therefore, the reconstruction of a society must search for ways to liberate the creative energy but not to establish new forms of authority. Russell would have agreed with Wilhelm von Humboldt that “to inquire and to create” are the centres around which all human pursuits more or less directly revolve
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