Systems Education in Academia: Comments on Today's Universities vis-a-vis Systems

Unfinished document in which Warfield contends that there are important reasons to distrust what higher education has to offer with regard to (large changing) systems. He criticizes the rise of “pseudo-scientific” publications and individuals among higher education institutions. Particularly deplores the tendency to ignore great scholars including De Morgan, Boole, Cayley and Harary.

We did not send this to Fenwick Lib Spec Collection, because a copy of it is already inside the South African thesis package packed to be sent, no sense sending two copies of the same thing. An unfinished document written by Warfield at the time he was doing the review of a Ph.D. thesis for Witwatersrand Univ in S. Africa. He states that "...there are significant reasons to mistrust what higher education has to offer with regard to (large, changing) systems." He criticizes the increase of "psuedo-scientific" publications and individuals among higher education institutions, and deplores their tendency to ignore some of the greatest scholars, such as De Morgan, Boole, Cayley, Harary. This document was not sent to South Africa with his review, but instead put away for possible future use. Warfield's printed title on the document is COMMENTS ON TODAY'S UNIVERSITIES, but the filename he gave it is: "SYSTEMS EDUCATION IN ACADEMIA" so I have included both titles as part of this database record.




Additional Info

  • Category: Education, Science, Systems Science, Thought Leaders
  • Size: 21 m 34 s
  • Description: Spiral bound manuscript with cover.
  • Publication Year: 2004
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