What Does A University Stand For? Retracing The Fundamentals
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Universities in India both as institutions and ideas seem to be passing through a rough phase in the present times. The recent attack on the autonomy of universities compels one to relook at the fundamentals which comprise the very idea of a university. The paper argues that the constant struggle between the mundane and the ideal constitutes a key part of the university experience and that the values debated and taught within the campuses are themselves utilitarian as they ensure the development of the ability to combine intuition and reason, fundamental for the development of society. The pedagogy in the universities has to stem from a desire to connect with the larger masses in the absence of which ideological dogmatism creeps in thereby labeling the ‘university’ as either a super-specialized entity or as a complete non-entity. University’s nurturing an unsettling temper by continuously questioning the fundamentals is a counter to the growing populism in the socio-political sphere. There is a need for reclamation of the university space in today’s time hinged on the idea of providing a ‘humane’ anti-thesis to the otherwise dominant shiny aesthetics of corporate driven morality.
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Dr. Sumit Howladar
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