%0 Conference Paper %A Maxwell, N %B TEDx UCL %C University College London (UCL) %D 2013 %F discovery:1404015 %K Wisdom, Knowledge, Academic revolution, Climate change, Population growth, World poverty, Habitat destruction, Extinction of species, War %T The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution: From Knowledge to Wisdom %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1404015/ %X There is an urgent need to bring about a revolution in academic inquiry so that the basic aim becomes to seek and promote wisdom, and not just acquire knowledge - wisdom being the capacity and active endeavour to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, wisdom thus including knowledge and technological know-how, and much else besides.