The Future of (Science) Higher Education

Abstract

A high level of education broadly administered raises the quality of life and standards of living most efficiently. But the improvement also increases educational pressure that is inefficient and harmful. This must be minimized. Efforts in this direction are blocked by inefficient academic instruction that still is mostly lecturing, despite the availability of better, cheaper facilities in the mass-media. They are also blocked by publication pressures that constantly reduce the quality of research and of scholarly periodicals.