"37% of the professors of UBA are ad-honorem professors - this means that they dont get a salary for their work, just the honor... It is a modal of social exchange that is mot merely based on economic resources or academic prestige. In a certain way the UBA is a collective social experiment, a complex organism made of mutliple parts and players that stick together in many different ways. The internal structures work together at different levels of the instituation, divded into things that are planned and things that are related more to the process of doing."
page 41, text by Florencia Alvarez, The Purple Journal, Number 9, Fall-Winter 06/07
Reading this re-incited something in me I think about periodically: free and equal knowledge exchange - Making things together that neither could have thought of on his or her own:
Education as collaboration, as making, as creation, as well as learning new and ancient information it is having the opportunity to find and remember that which is uniquely wound around in our insides.
The genius that comes through us. The wonder that each of us has to share.
Imagine making a tiny free university here in australia, or anywhere in your own hometown, where everyone could be a professor and a student. Where we could garden and eat together and people could take classes and share studios. It could be organically and well organised, permanent culture, useful, integrated, conceptual, physical, quantum.
Something to think about.
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