new course begins. This speech Ángel Gabilondo, Minister of Education and professor of metaphysics at the UAM, at the close of the annual meeting of European universities in 2005, may serve to lift the spirits. It offers many open-mindedness:
"What is to be university"
College is a place for professional training. The university is a space for dialogue, a landscape where you can breathe, a platform of knowledge, a world where not everything is business.
The university can not observe what's going on around us in box seats . Of what it is to keep the pulse on the reality and contribute to building a more just world. Because misery and ignorance, are fought with education, culture, art, knowledge . And the University should be the temple of all that knowledge. The University is not a place for training professional, because we too are interested in the formation of citizens with an open mind.
universities need to cultivate curiosity
Faced with the concept of student as customer, we focus on universities that educate, to cultivate curiosity, which proclaim a desire to learn as a form of entertainment. Being university is to be able to learn, to read slowly in a society that is in a hurry because they are very afraid.
College is an affective community
The university community must be an emotional, not a central issue of certificates. Being university is a be, but also a way of life. Another challenge of higher education is to support equal opportunities to quality education and train people with the ability to create value. In college dictionary also should address terms that have fallen into disuse, as a fraternity, justice or freedom.
The university must be careful with the word
The word care is another requirement of the university: who speaks well is an excellent person and a university should be able to move the word of communicate, to reason.
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