When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom.
learning communities: places where people came together to learn lessons that were as much about how to live as they were about how to perform a task?
highly resistant to new forms of scientific and technological knowledge
tension between education as information and education as enlightenment is not just a feature of 19th-century university politics. It remains fundamental to all higher education today
"When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom.
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