Challenges faced by the university to provide integral human development for 'exposed' Kenyan students.
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Byarugaba, Kentaro J.
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Universities originally came into being from the love of knowledge and from the curiosity of knowing. However, of late, with increased access and advanced technological facilities and an influx of both necessary and unnecessary information, universities are facing cultural challenges which have gone so far as to challenge an integral human development. This challenge is especially true for our Kenyan universities, which for the first time are able to expose their students to the whole world as has never before been possible. Care needs to be taken because, man can and has been sacrificed to the success and influence of science and technology. The time has come to ask ourselves whether these facilities are being used to contribute to an authentic human development of students.
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The 7th annual Ethics Conference
Universities originally came into being from the love of knowledge and from the curiosity of knowing. However, of late, with increased access and advanced technological facilities and an influx of both necessary and unnecessary information, universities are facing cultural challenges which have gone so far as to challenge an integral human development. This challenge is especially true for our Kenyan universities, which for the first time are able to expose their students to the whole world as has never before been possible. Care needs to be taken because, man can and has been sacrificed to the success and influence of science and technology. The time has come to ask ourselves whether these facilities are being used to contribute to an authentic human development of students.
Universities originally came into being from the love of knowledge and from the curiosity of knowing. However, of late, with increased access and advanced technological facilities and an influx of both necessary and unnecessary information, universities are facing cultural challenges which have gone so far as to challenge an integral human development. This challenge is especially true for our Kenyan universities, which for the first time are able to expose their students to the whole world as has never before been possible. Care needs to be taken because, man can and has been sacrificed to the success and influence of science and technology. The time has come to ask ourselves whether these facilities are being used to contribute to an authentic human development of students.