Step-by-step explanation:
Here is an outline of the argument for the urgent need to bring about a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry, its full nature and structure, so that it takes the proper task of launching wisdom rather than just taking of knowledge.
The academy as it exists today is the product of two previous great intellectual revolutions.
The first was the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, associated with Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Boyle, Newton and many others, who in fact created modern science. A method was discovered for progressive knowledge acquisition, the popular empirical method of science.
The second revolution was the Enlightenment, especially the French Enlightenment, in the 18th century. Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet and other philosophers had deeply important ideas that it may be possible to learn from scientific progress how to achieve the progress of society towards an enlightened world.
They not only came up with the idea: they did everything to bring the idea into their lives. They fought against dictatorial power, superstition, and injustice with weapons no more lethal than strife and ingenuity. They gave their support to the virtues of tolerance, openness to doubt, willingness to learn from criticism and from experience. With courage and vigor they worked hard to establish rationality and enlightenment in personal and social life.