Books Are the Preferred Medium: Even for the Gods
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
August 2023 EDITORIAL
“BEST PRACTICES” is quite a clever term. I had trouble accepting it at first, trained to be relativistic as I am by the social sciences. I had to ask questions like: Who decides such things? Who decides that a practice is “best”?Over time, I came to see the need for that expression — and the usefulness of it — in almost any field of human endeavour. I came to realise that the term does not need to imply anything ideological...
Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com
