{"id":690,"date":"2015-02-18T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/?p=690"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:12:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:12:52","slug":"quote-of-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/2015\/02\/18\/quote-of-the-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;By the time [today&#8217;s students] graduate from secondary school, they [will] have watched television 16,000 hours, compared to 11,000 spent with their teachers. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Meanwhile,] calculators can solve problems faster than the human brain, and computers can retrieve instantly millions of information units. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But television, calculators, and computers cannot &#8212; and will not &#8212; make discriminatory judgements. They cannot &#8212; or will not &#8212; teach the students wisdom. The challenge of the future is not to fight or imitate the electronic teacher. Rather, the challenge is to build a partnership between traditional and non-traditional education, letting each do what it can do best.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Ernest L. Boyer, in a <a href=\"messiah.pastperfectonline.com\/archive\/39C8CCCC-A9E2-4714-BDF1-385478213888\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> on non-traditional forms of education, delivered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/messiah.pastperfect-online.com\/38745cgi\/mweb.exe?request=record&amp;id=2FBBC262-6523-4EF8-9C07-359100074438&amp;type=301\" target=\"_blank\">dedication<\/a> of the Paul G. Bulger Lifelong Learning Center at SUNY Buffalo in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By the time [today&#8217;s students] graduate from secondary school, they [will] have watched television 16,000 hours, compared to 11,000 spent with their teachers. . . . &#8220;[Meanwhile,] calculators can solve problems faster than the human brain, and computers can retrieve instantly millions of information units. . . . &#8220;But television, calculators, and computers cannot &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5363],"tags":[1307,5394,738],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day","tag-higher-education","tag-non-traditional-education","tag-technology","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}