In my opinion, this famous university is not educating and has no understanding of what education is. Students have no right of control over their own lives. It’s a system calculated on the impotence of the students in that it makes everything the student does something outside himself. What that does is teach people to be powerless. We started from the initial statement that education is something that happens in your mind, the mind learning itself, learning how to use itself. It’s a very inner process, and the function that teachers traditionally serve in most of the cultures of the world – where they haven’t gotten to modern industrial teaching which is essentially a training mechanism – is one of spiritual guidance. Not only should a teacher know things but he should have an understanding, a wisdom about things, beyond simply knowing them. So that a teacher provides himself as a mirror to the other person’s mind and gives that person a glimpse into his own mind so he can then start educating himself. That’s what education is, and it isn’t this whole social system at this university, the superficialities. They rigidify the students here into cogs for the great American wheel. Most people who teach at colleges are doing it for very simple security reasons, and they don’t like people to rock the boat even though they make a big thing about intellectual inquiry and all that. A professor will allow you to put down the administration but will get offended if you say the faculty is irrelevant, which they are by and large, except for maybe ten people, and they’re relevant as people because they’ve developed a style of living that really has relevance to other lives.
(from The New Student President by Gina Berriault, 翰唐 录入)
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