MA English Literature Prose Guess Paper

Digital and its impact on knowledge
Paul Mathias is the dean of the philosophy group of the General Inspectorate of National Education. In an interview, he explains how digital technology has upset the relationship to knowledge .

Basically, the relationship between the learner and the scholar is “a relationship of listening, of learning (…) But it supposes a double effort: the effort of the ignorant to become a scholar; and the primordial effort of the scholar to place himself within reach of the ignorant ”.