Higher Education in 2015
The November 25, 2005 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education contains two excellent articles about the challenges ahead for higher education and how the future will shake out by 2015. One article says, “In higher education, the liberal arts, philosophy and the humanities - the nonscientific ways of truth seeking - have been put on the defensive.” My observation has been that these domains, including the social sciences, have forsaken the scientific method for paradigms, personal experiences, and other unreliable ways of trying to establish knowledge.
I forecast that higher education leaders will soon start to realize the great importance of teaching the science of problem solving and decision making. College students should demand that they be taught it now so they don’t go out into the world without this valuable knowledge. The SM-14 formula and details about the scientific method can be viewed at www.scientificmethod.com.
