Schools and universities need to be designed as crucibles of creativity, not merely factories of knowledge.
The new future of universities embedding themselves within the internet, and offering cheap and accessible degrees, the brick based universities will have to adapt or die in the evolution of internet knowledge factories The democratisation of knowledge is the new product of the 21st centuary.
While maintaining that they were inevitable, he warned of the danger of "knowledge factories" whose neglect of students through large classes, the use of teaching assistants and the selection of faculty members based on their research expertise rather than instructional capacities could turn those students into an "alienated" class.
Most who do not, and many of those at less academic schools, go ultimately into specialised training for one of around 350 trades, from gardening to glass-blowing.Students divide their time between classrooms and the factory floor, acquiring a lot of knowledge on the job.
The library of Alexandria, today celebrated as the knowledge factory of the ancient world, was not destroyed by war.
They have accused an Argentine arms dealer who has fled to South Africa and officials at the army's arms factory of transferring the arms without their knowledge.
Lest you think this is all about improving the lives of knowledge workers, Daugherty says that AI will reach down to the factory floor.
In this era of knowledge economy, appropriate management of the rapidly evolving knowledge is a real and urgent issue for factories and enterprises, in order to maintain the competitive edges.
Grouped loosely under the heading "the knowledge society" and sometimes "the knowledge economy", they portray the university not just as a creator of knowledge, a trainer of young minds and a transmitter of culture, but also as a major agent of economic growth: the knowledge factory, as it were, at the centre of the knowledge economy.
Are they instances of knowledge?
