Trying to distract/distort him from his dissertation is a vain attempt.
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7. Use the words from the box to form a word that fits in the same numbered space in the text.
| People have always sought knowledge. Some societies have made a classic example of …(1)… knowledge through a …(2)… trial and error approach, others, like the United States, demonstrated a mesmerizing ability to learn extremely fast, while not a few, like Germany, benefited from starting late, …(3)… the long-drawn-out process that Britain went through. Recent decades however have witnessed an …(4)… growth of knowledge diffusion. Over the last 30 years Japan, Singapore, South Korea and now China - because of their energy, exertions and progress facilitating ability to grasp at every innovation and put it to good use - have rocketed …(5)…. The society itself is a good deal different from the society of the late 20th century when the …(6)… majority of people worked with their hands. Today the fastest-growing groups of the workforce in every developed economy are “knowledge workers” – people whose jobs require formal and advanced …(7)…. The term “knowledge economy” embellishes without fail every academic writing on the links between economy and education. Yet those reiterating it quite often underestimate or even ignore its …(8)… for human values and human behaviour. Meanwhile new society will be characterized by: borderlessness (because knowledge travels even more effortlessly than money), …(9)… mobility (available to everyone through easily acquired formal education), the potential for failure as well as success (anyone can acquire the “means of production”, ie, the knowledge required or the jobs, but not everyone can win). The synergy of these characteristics multiplied by yet another factor - the advance of information technology, allowing knowledge to spread near-instantly and be accessible to everyone - makes the knowledge society a highly …(10)… one given the ease and speed at which information travels. | (1) ACCUMULATOR (2) CONSUMER (3) LEAP (4) PRECEDENT (5) SKY (6) WHELM (7) SCHOOL (8) IMPLY (9) UP (10) COMPETE |
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² 8. Listen to the commentary and tick the statements coinciding with the commentator's point of view.
1. From Archilochus's Fragment 103 it's not clear whether the fox or hedgehog was wiser.
2. Fragment 103 is a metaphor for modern life as we need more specialists.
3. Western society views the generalist today as a necessity.
4. The message of the Oxford classicist was that you need to study many subjects to think critically.
5. It's better to know more about less than less about more.
6. Specialists are more dangerous to society than generalists.
7. Technology is not a friend to general education.
8. The generalist fox, or liberal arts major, is a “jack-of-all-trades, master of none”.
9. Studying many subjects, such as in a liberal arts curriculum, broadens one's view of the world and creates better citizens.
10. Educating society for tomorrow is more difficult than it was in the past.
9. State the commentator's viewpoint in one sentence.
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