Description
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
1-13-2016
Keywords
Education; knowledge; Society; The Academy; Institutions; Schools; Public policy; Educators; Political force; Gatekeepers; Educational institutions
Introduction
When we die, the knowledge stored in our brains disappears. But through education, each generation of people can pass their knowledge to the next via spoken language, books and other media, and this knowledge can accumulate through the ages.
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
Source
https://today.ucf.edu/our-best-hope-in-a-world-filled-with-emergencies-education-2/ (UCF Today: UCF Forum)
STARS Citation
Mauer, Barry (2016). Our best hope in a world filled with emergencies? Education. UCF Today, 2016-01-13. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/our-best-hope-in-a-world-filled-with-emergencies-education-2/
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