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The Optimum utilization of knowledge : making knowledge serve human betterment / edited by Kenneth E. Boulding and Lawrence Senesh

Publisher	(New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group)
Year	2019
Authors	Boulding, Kenneth E 1910-1993 editor Senesh, Lawrence editor Academy of Independent Scholars

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00180582		Taylor & Francis eBooks Archive Collection (電子ブック)	0429313306

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Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (xi, 382 pages) : illustrations
Notes	"Papers presented at a symposium ... at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 5-November 8, 1981." Sponsored by the Academy of Independent Scholars We all have more knowledge than we use; even so, say the editors of this book, ignorance often governs our actions. Society continues to find ways to misuse knowledge-from manipulating information to gain political power to restricting what ideas are explored on university campuses. Thus, when some of the best minds in the country met to focus on the optimum utilization of knowledge, it was not an idle academic inquiry. In these proceedings from that conference, which was sponsored by the Academy of Independent Scholars, the contributors examine several of the key aspects of learning: the importance of knowledge in decision making, the role of our educational system and other systems in producing and disseminating knowledge, and the relationship between knowledge and the physiological, psychological, and cultural bases of the learning process. The misuse of knowledge-or the overuse of ignorance-the authors note, could threaten the existence of the entire planet, if the kind of thinking exemplified by the nuclear arms race prevails OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record HTTP:URL=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429313301 Information=Taylor & Francis
Subjects	LCSH:Learning and scholarship -- Congresses All Subject Search LCSH:Knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses All Subject Search FREE:SOCIAL SCIENCE / General FREE:SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Classification	LCC:AZ103 DC23:001
ID	8000082200
ISBN	0429313306