单词 | knowledge factory |
释义 | > as lemmasknowledge factory knowledge factory n. depreciative a school, college, etc., esp. one which places emphasis on vocational training or which overemphasizes factual knowledge. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] high school1581 school1701 lyceum1832 knowledge factory1845 1845 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 475/1 After all our educational frippery and trumpery, our knowledge-factories, and teaching-jennies, instruction is still, to us, the same mysterious communing of knowledge with ignorance, that it used to be. 1884 Ladies' Treasury Nov. 653/2 The taste of the Swedes points rather to good public schools..than to the large knowledge factories of Russia. 1968 Listener 4 July 6/2 Some students who rioted on British campuses (like some in France and Italy) have been protesting at having found themselves in a knowledge factory when they thought they were headed for something else. 1999 T. W. Harrison & J. L. Kachur Contested Classrooms p. xxxiii His position stands firmly against the business interest to turn schools into high-tech knowledge factories. < as lemmas |
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