PEP Forum Uganda

Africa: Goodbye, university

Jan. 15, 2019

In 2018, Bryan Caplan wrote the book "The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money".  What makes new technology and education due to skills from our own time  experience? Bryan Caplan is concerned about the disruptions in human capital development, and the inability to think a thought longer than five centimeters.

After  several years of discussing brain drain and black vs white education gap  - as if it wasn't enough to think for family, relatives and students in Africa struggle to fund all the years of study: a lot of money is needed to achieve an intellectual university degree, is it worth it? But  it is a question that will always remain unanswered: why is it so? Such  questions can be crucial to almost everything related to the culture  and quality of universities. Yet, a new world order has emerged that  looks at the current university system with deep skepticism, and in 2003  Robert Kagan wrote about "Paradise and Power" how the elite in some countries of the world invest their money in Panama Papers and send their children to prestigious universities, to get the best education.    

Social anthropologist Marcel Mauss article (1926) ,'Critique interne de la"Legende de l'Abraham'  influenced Africa, but he never published a book, Mauss especially  challenged a racist anthropology of African societies known as the "Hamitic hypothesis" and well-known to students of Africa; it  states that everything of value ever found in Africa was brought there  and linked it with the agitation of the Jewish question that still  applies around the world - a basic argument in his essay is that  the social category "race" is not a category that denotes vulnerability,  but a categorization system derived from an analysis which he believes  is "unforgettable." And what about Claude Lévi-Strauss ? The founder of Structuralism  –⁠ he published a lot, but not in the beginning, because then he sat  and thought and read and noted; it took him four years before anything  bigger come up. In return he then published a book that changed the way  we think about kinship. He would have lost money today if he had global funding, or from a research organization: "yours is empty", they would say about his research.  

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