ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to weave together three themes namely archaeology's 'loss of political compass', archaeologist's education and second empiricism. Archaeology is about doing field research and about displaying and publishing the finds, but it is also about teaching students in the university classroom. The chapter addresses issues that would be of greater concern to university teachers than to professional archaeologists occupied in fieldwork and the display and publication of the findings. The coming-of-age of the heritage industry has transformed archaeological knowledge from a field of reflection to a commodity for trade and consumption. Archaeology students are uneasy about the idea that facts emerge and are modified in networks in which humans do much work and which have a pronounced temporal dimension, and that this holds as much for wrong as for right interpretations. Teaching archaeology with the new, reformed empiricism in mind is a challenge and at once a learning experience for the students.
