Interview with Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture”.
In my mind that is antithetical to education – the entire “the-teacher-does-not-know-more-than-the-
student-thing”. It will cause the entire premise of education to break down. On the other hand, the teacher should be a friend and not the one who tells the pupils what to do – that is totally wrong.
Andrew Keen: Essentially, my book suggests that if you do away with the editor, you do away with the ecosystem of traditional media, whether it be the editor, the teacher, the agent or the publisher. Doing away with these valuable media contributors is disastrous because you need gatekeepers for value. Without them, the dynamic will lend itself to corruption. So again, in my mind, undermining these values doesn’t help the development; it only helps new oligarchies to emerge. Even worse, these oligarchies in the Internet are often anonymous.
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