Toshkent davlat pedagogika universiteti ilmiy axborotlari 2020/1(22) issn 2181-9580

TOSHKENT DAVLAT PEDAGOGIKA UNIVERSITETI ILMIY AXBOROTLARI
2020/1(22) 
The conservative Allan Bloom thought that a handful of very bright students 
gather at prestigious universities to study Plato and Aristotle and refuse to interfere 
with their anti-racist rally or anti-Vietnam protests outside the classroom. He 
mentioned the purpose of education is “not to make students scholars but to provide 
them with a moral virtue—openness.
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However, from the birth of capitalism, compulsory public education has played 
a role in harming democracy and maintaining the wealth and power of the ruling 
class. “Radical changes are occurring in what democratic societies teach the young, 
and these changes have not been well thought through. Thirsty for national profit, 
nations, and their systems of education, are heedlessly discarding skills that are 
needed to keep democracies alive. If this trend continues, nations all over the world 
will soon be producing generations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens 
who can think for themselves, criticize tradition, and understand the significance of 
another person’s sufferings and achievements.
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In other word, “dominant education utilizes poisonous pedagogy mechanism to 
undermine independent thought, a prerequisite for the ‘manufacture of consent ’. It is 
only through a pedagogy that manufacturers consent that a society tolerates gross 
distortions of reality as we are witnessing with the present war in Iraq.
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American universities (currently dominating the world) can be largely divided 
into leading research-oriented universities, general universities and liberal arts 
colleges. The need for universities is expected to diminish, and interest in liberal arts 
for creative thinking is expected to increase with the 4
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industrial revolution.
Klaus Schwab introduced the meaning and how to respond the fourth industrial 
revolution at the World Economic Forum in 2016 that “Digital revolution has been 
occurring since the middle of the last century. It is characterized by a fusion of 
technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological 
spheres.
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Deep shift-technology tipping points and societal impact expected to occur by 
2025 were shown in this world economic forum such as “30% of corporate audits 
performed by AI” and “the first AI machine on a corporate board of directors”
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development of AI and technology is increasingly replacing jobs of lawyers, doctors, 
nurses, teachers, professors, CEOs etc.
Thomas Frey predicted that 50% of universities will be closed by 2030 
considering rising costs and student loan backlash, demand for online courses, 
discontents, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
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. This is because the 
lower competitiveness of universities. He mentioned “the equivalent to a college 
degree.”. However, he reiterated, “Alternatives to going to college are definitely not 
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Bloom, A. (1986). The closing of the American Mind-How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of 
today’s students. Simon & Schuster. 
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Nussbaum, M.C. (2010). Not for profit-why democracy needs the humanities. Princeton University Press. 
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Zinn, H. and Macedo, D. (2005). Apparatus of lies USA: Introduction. In: Howard Zinn on democratic education. Paradigm 
Publishers. 
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Schwab, K. (2016). The fourth industrial revolution. Penguin Random House. 
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Rose, G. (ed.) (2016). The fourth industrial revolution-a Davos reader. Foreign Affairs. 
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Frey, T. (2013). By 2030 over 50% of Colleges Will Collapse. Business Trends,1–10 

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