4.0285 University as Clearinghouse (4/36)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 16 Jul 90 18:30:15 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0285. Monday, 16 Jul 1990.


(1) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 90 18:36:08 EDT (14 lines)
From: Frank Dane <FDANE@UGA>
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse"

(2) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 20:06 PDT (5 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse"

(3) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 20:07 PDT (7 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse"

(4) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 09:09:37 EDT (10 lines)
From: pdk@iris.brown.edu (Paul D. Kahn)
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse"

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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 90 18:36:08 EDT
From: Frank Dane <FDANE@UGA>
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse" (2/37)

New to the list, and one of the heretics who never benefitted from a
liberal arts education (science was all, all else was elective), I must
ask:

What is the difference between information and knowledge?

Is not knowledge merely information applied in an appropriate context?

Frank Dane
Mercer University (a liberal arts institution)
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 20:06 PDT
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse" (2/37)

Of course, McLuhan said it, before he ..well, deaded it. Kessler
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 20:07 PDT
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse" (2/37)

I mean, if he said it, it is to be believed. Take him at face value:
his message is his message. Kessler

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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 09:09:37 EDT
From: pdk@iris.brown.edu (Paul D. Kahn)
Subject: Re: 4.0279 More on "University as Clearinghouse" (2/37)

Confucius was responding to the fragmentation of a much older unified
"Chinese" culture. The First Emperor, Qing Shi Huang Di, ruler of the
state of Chin, unifier of the several "Chinese" states, and connector of
the Great Wall, lived about 300 years after the author of the Analects.
He did have a famous book burning party and did bury scholars alive.
Somehow, information survives.