93.  Chesterton’s Fence 

In 1929 G.K. Chesterton provided a concise admonition about making decisions in life.  If you encounter a fence on the road, he advised, don’t take it down until you know why it was built in the first place.  In short, we need to understand how the status quo came to be before we change it. There may be a good reason for the fence, and removing it could have unintended consequences. In this episode I’ll pursue this line of reasoning as it applies to America (and elsewhere) today, and in particular how it should be instructive for higher education. EdUp Insights with Bill Pepicello is part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network