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as a result. This implication serves to discredit the invaluable contributions of all the
philosophers, scientists, poets, and others of the past, upon whose immense shoulders society
stands today.
A final argument that books are made no less useful by television has to do with the
experience of perusing the stacks in a library, or even a bookstore. Switching television
channels, or even scanning a video library, simply cannot duplicate this experience. Why not?
Browsing among books allows for serendipity--unexpectedly coming across an interesting and
informative book while searching for something else, or for nothing in particular. Moreover,
browsing through a library or bookstore is a pleasurable sensory experience for many
people--an experience that the speaker would have us forego forever.
In sum, television and video can be more efficient than books as a means of staying abreast
of current affairs, and for education in the arts that involve moving imagery. However, books
facilitate learning in certain ways that television does not and cannot. In the final analysis, the
optimal approach is to use both media side by side--television to keep us informed and to
provide moving imagery, along with books to provide perspective and insight on that
information and imagery.
Issue 23
"Scholars and researchers should not be concerned with whether their work makes a
contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their individual interests,
however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem."
Should academic scholars and researchers be free to pursue whatever avenues of inquiry
and research that interest them, no matter how unusual or idiosyncratic, as the speaker
asserts? Or should they strive instead to focus on those areas that are most likely to benefit
society? l strongly agree with the speaker, for three reasons.
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First of all, who is to decide which areas of academic inquiry are worthwhile? Scholars
cannot be left to decide. Given a choice they will pursue their own idiosyncratic areas of
interest, and it is highly unlikely that all scholars could reach a fully informed consensus as to
what research areas would be most worthwhile. Nor can these decisions be left to regulators
and legislators, who would bring to bear their own quirky notions about what would be
worthwhile, and whose susceptibility to influence renders them untrustworthy in any event.
Secondly, by human nature we are motivated to pursue those activities in which we excel. To
compel scholars to focus only on certain areas would be to force many to waste their true
talents. For example, imagine relegating today's preeminent astrophysicist Stephen Hawking
to research the effectiveness of affirmative-action legislation in reducing workplace
discrimination. Admittedly, this example borders on hyperbole. Yet the aggregate effect of
realistic cases would be to waste the intellectual talents of our world's scholars and
researchers. Moreover, lacking genuine interest or motivation, a scholar would be unlikely to
contribute meaningfully to his or her "assigned" field of study.
Thirdly, it is "idiosyncratic" and "unusual" avenues of inquiry that lead to the greatest
contributions to society. Avenues of intellectual and scientific inquiry that break no new ground
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