{"id":19620,"date":"2017-07-29T13:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=19620"},"modified":"2017-07-29T13:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T12:44:49","slug":"the-future-of-learning-and-the-independent-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/07\/29\/the-future-of-learning-and-the-independent-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of learning and the independent scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High quality long-form journalism on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2017\/07\/the-future-of-learning-and-the-independent-scholar\/\">&#8220;The future of learning and the independent scholar&#8221;<\/a>, from Karl Schmude in <em>The Spectator<\/em> Australia&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In this essay I will focus on three things \u2013 firstly, to sketch the contribution of the independent scholar to the world of learning in the past, and more broadly to the world of culture; secondly, to reflect on changes in university and academic life that have affected the capacity, and even the existence, of the independent scholar; and thirdly, to highlight the potential for independent scholarship in present-day culture, given that the university has now come to dominate the world of learning, and even of vocational training.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The British edition of <em>The Spectator<\/em> sporadically nips behind a paywall, but this is from the Australian edition and is free for me.  <\/p>\n<p>Schmude is writing from a Catholic perspective, so the essay entertains a few hobby-horses which canter around aimlessly for a few lines, but when he&#8217;s sticking to the topic it&#8217;s a stimulating read.  Worth it for the phase &#8220;immune to the insinuations of conformism&#8221; alone&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; he was largely immune to the insinuations of conformism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High quality long-form journalism on &#8220;The future of learning and the independent scholar&#8221;, from Karl Schmude in The Spectator Australia&#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/07\/29\/the-future-of-learning-and-the-independent-scholar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}