Another insightful saying from the book Everyday Psychology, by Dr Steve Edwards:
‘To follow knowledge like a sinking star.’ — This quotation is from the poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Dr Edwards comments: The more we learn the less we know, is a popular version of the above. This may sound negative, but has great humility in its implication of awareness of the ever expanding horizons of our information explosion era.
There is a joke about the professor who asked the class: What is subject X all about ? —Â Everyone in the class had their hands up except the professor.
There is another joke about the 15-year-old who thought his father knew nothing. At 22, he was amazed at how much his father had learned in seven years. The traditional role of the university is the preservation, extension and transmission of knowledge.
And then, there are some who say, ‘Ask a teenager while he still knows everything.’
One wonders how this traditional role of a university is doing nowadays? This is a good fair time to ask about the roles to preserve, extend and transmit knowledge. One wonders how the comparables among universities can account for themselves in order to bring and honour the orders of these things of preservations of knowledge, of extensions of knowledge, and of transmissions of knowledge . One tover homesick dream is of Fort Hare being among the first to account for our understanding on knowledge.