Philosophy
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8 hours agoWhat About Knowledge That No Longer Knows What It Is For?
Knowledge and education have become distorted by managerial frameworks, leading to a superficial understanding of their true purpose and value.
At the end of August 1939, the German archaeologist Otto Völzing discovered around 200 fragments of carved mammoth ivory at the back of a cave in southern Germany. With war just a week away, Völzing's find was hurriedly collected in a box, where it lay unnoticed in a museum archive for decades. It wasn't until the 1960s, when the shards were inventoried, that something astonishing emerged out of the heap of broken pieces.