Why University education is falling out of favour

The value-premises upholding academic research have been maintained by what many considers to be quasi-mythological beliefs about human purpose, human reason and human progress, the liberal bent in Higher Education is, might be classed as academically sacrosanct. The 'knowers' all those tenured in Universities might just have had their day as they are being undermined by rapid Informisation.

There is a  shift of authority from the 'knowers'.

One must put to the rack, the already evident understanding of a text in terms of presuppositions, ideological underpinnings, hierarchical values, and frames of reference. A deconstructive approach further depends on the techniques of close reading without reference to cultural, ideological, moral opinions or information derived from an authority over the text such as a teacher or the author of said text.

There should be an emphasis on how various aspects of a particular culture, from its most ordinary, everyday material details to its most abstract theories and beliefs, determine one another

There should be an emphasis on how various aspects of a particular culture, from its most ordinary, everyday material details to its most abstract theories and beliefs, determine one another.  One should question the existence of any distinction between the nature of a thing and its relationship to other things. , It is important to uncover the hidden patterns of circularity, self-reference and paradox within a given set of statements rather than feign objectivity, as such an investigation might allow new perspectives to have influence and new practices to be sanctioned

Of course in a counter argument the structuralist and postmodernist visions of the world are not flexible enough to seek explanations in psychological, social and environmental domains at the same time, in the view of many.