pn789. Science, Mātauranga and the destruction of the Humanities. Education no longer a "good in itself"

I agree totally with the letter in the NZ Listener letter (August 28th) from Auckland's Emeritus Professor of English Michael Neill, which I quote or paraphrase below:

Professor Michael Neill

The recent science versus mātaurangi Māori debate is "little more than a philosophical argument about wording, whose outcome is unlikely to have the slightest effect on funding."  Science once embraced all forms of knowledge before it was hijacked in the 18th century and later came to focus on the so-called scientific method.  "This quarrel distracts (us) from a much more serious educational development in our universities, the systematic destruction of the Humanities, not only in Auckland but elsewhere.  ugust 28th) from Auckland's Emeritus Professor of English Michael Neill, which I quote or paraphrase below: