Abstract
Short polemical piece highlighting the role of the university as the space for intergenerational exchange through participation in learning communities.
Highlights
I am paraphrasing the opening lines of André Breton’s first Manifesto of Surrealism from 1924 (Breton 1924/1972, p.3)
Which real? Whose reality? There are those that say real education is fragile in the face of woke progressivism, grade inflation, Mickey Mouse degrees; in the face of neoliberalism, conservatism, consumerism, precariousness; against Marxism, Brownism, Goveism
We are perhaps tempted instead to embrace a certain nihilism, cynicism, a withdrawal from the fray: ‘There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say that there isn’t’ said Leonard Cohen in 1974
Summary
I am paraphrasing the opening lines of André Breton’s first Manifesto of Surrealism from 1924 (Breton 1924/1972, p.3). Our belief in education is so strong. But education – real education – is fragile.
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