JTW Vlogcast: Why We Need Justice University (and Capital Homesteading)
According to Dr. Noriko H. Arai, in most countries
today (although she was focusing primarily on Japan), students memorize vast
amounts of data — which any computer can do better, e.g., “Watson” on
the “Jeopardy Challenge” — but often fail to understand meaning, that is, they
do not really comprehend what they “learn” in any meaningful sense.
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| Dr. Noriko H. Arai |
Applying Dr. Arai’s findings to the
difficulties experienced with getting people to accept the Just Third Way of
Economic Personalism, we can suddenly understand why, when they are presented
with (for example) the principles of binary economics as explained by Louis
Kelso and Mortimer Adler, or the laws and characteristics of social justice as
explained by Pope Pius XI and CESJ co-founder Father William Ferree, people
either look blank, run away, or attack.
Confronted with something that is outside of their store of accumulated “knowledge”
of the way things are that they have memorized, they do not have the intellectual
tools they need to comprehend anything outside their current frame of reference.
If you pay close attention, you will note that Dr. Arai does not offer a solution to the redundancy of labor except to create jobs, but we can agree with her contention that Academia in these dark days is clearly in need of something:
