=>A university is a place where new ideas germinate, strike roots and grow tall and sturdy.
=>It is a place where creative minds converge, interact with each other and construct visions of new realities.
=>Established notions of truths are challenged in the persuit of knowledge. To be able to do all this, universities have to be autonomous spaces.
=>The university has also been regarded as the trustee of the humanist traditions of the world.
=>This univesal approach to knowledge demands that boundaries of disciplines be porous and scholars be constantly on guard against the tendency towards cubicalisation of knowledge.
Only if we have such a university
ReplyDeleteBut, it does not mean that it cannot be achieved. Well, I guess it might be safe to say that some universities elsewhere have achieved this standards upto some certain extend. When they can, why can't we? We need to trust in our abilities, and not just stay there as sitting ducks...its time we move on and stop dreaming and live to bring those dreams to reality.
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