Que Universidade?

Para acabar com o "luto" bloguístico causado pela última entrada, que não deve ser mais do que a ponta do icebergue, deixo aqui um trecho para todos pensarmos:

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Professors tend to think universities exist naturally, or as a gift of history, in order to employ them. Somewhat paradoxically, this is at least as true of ‘progressive’ critics of the status quo as of conservatives anxious to restore an imagined golden age. And it has a significant part of its basis in a curious mixture of aristocratic notions of class privilege and meritocratic self-understandings of those who did well on exams. Most academics, in other words, believe they deserve their university jobs on the basis of their previously demonstrated merit. They may acknowledge that their capacity to demonstrate merit – to get good grades as children, top exam scores as youths, or write dissertations as young adults – is in fact partly the result of class privilege – from the cultural capital their parents provided them to their good fortune to live in countries or communities that afforded them access to strong secondary schools and universities to the economic position that afforded them the leisure – or at least freedom from immediate economic necessity – to pursue graduate study. But they – we, I am not exempt – are likely to acknowledge these in a vague critique of global inequality while understanding themselves mainly in more individualistic terms as those entitled to favor because they did well.
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(op. cit., p. 34)

C. Calhoun (2006). The University and the Public Good. Thesis Eleven 84: 7-43 (ligação disponível a partir de uma rede de ES)