 | | hoe kan je dat nu geen probleem vinden? | NN - 26.09.2006 19:23
aan MetdePet: als je daar geen problemen mee hebt, dan vindt je het misschien ook niet zo'n gek idee als ze je voortaan gewoon vanaf je huisdeur naar de collegezaal brengen, en weer terug? Dan kijken we 's avonds allemaal alleen thuis tv en dan oogjes dicht en snaveltjes toe. Nog beter, als we nu iedereen tegelijk in de bak gooien, dan is alles daarna veilig, stel je voor, dat er nooit meer iets gejat wordt of iemand iets anders doet wat niet mag. Da's pas vooruitgang.
| | probleem | fjørd - 26.09.2006 19:26
Reagerend op de vorige bijdrage: ja, het was vorig jaar zeker een probleem. Met 300 mensen door twee kleine deuren naar buiten, terwijl 300 andere mensen door dezelfde kleine deuren naar binnen willen, is gerust een probleem te noemen. Zeker. Ik vind persoonlijk die aggressieve kaalkoppen een groter probleem, maar goed, smaken verschillen.
Dan de oplossing. Een academisch ingestelde universiteit zou zeggen: meer collegezalen, of kleinere hoorcollege-groepen (door meer vakken aan te bieden en meer keuzevrijheid te bieden). Deze universiteit gelooft echter heilig in de Lissabon-agenda en de kenniseconomie, en kiest gewoon voor het concept "zo veel mogelijk onderwijs voor zo laag mogelijke kosten". Efficiëntie. Kwantiteit boven kwaliteit. En huurt dus bewakers in.
| | Eerder verschenen en voorzien | DK - 26.09.2006 17:29
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The Treaty of Amsterdam
by Jaap den Haan Thursday March 10, 2005 at 05:53 AM
The University of Amsterdam
In line with the European motto 'the bigger, the stronger', many small European countries, including the Netherlands, throw overboard what has made them essentially big.
In a city like Amsterdam, where the ideals of a natural, uncompetitive society had survived so far, we can see the effects of this new (dis)orientation most clearly, to appease dissatisfied taxpayers supposedly.
Not only the City Council and the Dutch Government, but the University of Amsterdam have moved towards a deeper commercialism in a confusion of who is who. This can be observed in small things, and is a result, not of choice but destiny, it was proposed by European policy-makers.
'The train is moving, and cannot be stopped', said German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the time, referring to the Euro. We have disquieting associations with trains that cannot be stopped. That is perhaps why public transportation as well as all other public services have become a matter of constant controversy.
Everybody has to 'think big' in time, and students are conditioned in an early stage by the decree that they have to be delivered as a good product - worth the investment - to society, and be useful to the State, the latter though which has been basically supplanted by European ideology, an abstraction.
Years ago, just after the Treaty of Amsterdam, laying the foundation of the Euro, was signed, we could already see changes take place in small communities, like that of the University of Amsterdam.
A boy was expulsed from the university after having spoken about the World-teacher Maitreya, the Mahatma Koot Hoomi and the Master Djhwal Khul, also called 'the Tibetan'. The latter became well known by the many books that were telepathically dictated to his disciple Alice Ann Bailey, in preparation of a new world order in which a better consensus would be achieved between material ideology and spiritual science, between means and meaning.
The boy who thus spoke was arrested, interrogated and thrown out of the university, the Mensa - open meeting space and restaurant - by nearly ten policemen who had been invited by the manager to that effect. The manager had received an anonymous message, he said, in which the person in question (no longer a student, but still a creative member of the intellectual environment of the university) was accused of mental instability and terrorist plans. The boy was shocked, but anything he said in his defence was futile, and enhanced suspicion against him in other ways. A few days earlier he had already been approached there by two security guards. These expensive, then recent employees of the university had nothing to do, and were just looking for trouble and intrigue, and maybe some distraction, to justify their presence, the boy had thought. This was long before international terrorism became a global conditioner of human affairs.
The boy had a handicap.
Meanwhile a new, ambitious subway was planned in Amsterdam, with much glass in its design, suggesting a transparency lacking everywhere else above the ground, and many mirror-like effects, presumably to make it seem inviting for its engineers to enter as well.
The boy has had his lesson in psychology, call it economy, and what is cause and effect. His experience was later interpreted as sustaining a development on a wider scale, and a clear guideline in understanding the twins of not imaginary terrorism and war on terror. For the not very transparent structures that were globally developed as part of a new world order, not only conceived in Europe, but elsewhere, have alienated many people, not only from an organic society like that of Amsterdam were, but the world at large, also many who were to be intelligent leaders.
The new world order, so called, which was introduced by George Bush senior, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was only a concept, an ideology, working out more abstractly than the Super Mundane to most people.
It would be useful to consider wisdom in small matters, in being part of any order. But our messengers are frequently maltreated, and confusion and terror are the result. The boy at least has learnt in his own way, why Pythagoras already stressed the ever persistent analogy between microcosm and macrocosm to be basic to all life, and how this can be a real science, as well as a form of prevision.
Yet, many people like to steal and falsify knowledge when it is in the right hands. But even thieves help to construct evidence by what they can not properly use. A culture of blame and shame, of waste and bad taste may be the result, and of search, but also still: scientific proof.
When we apply this knowledge to society, and recognise the difference, as well as the correspondence between private and public responsibility, we understand why alienated people seek transparency under the ground and obscurity above, and still call themselves realistic.
Simple people are needed to create a balance between means and meaning, between freedom and justice. Simple structures will be the result of their solidarity, not dogmatic or oppressive, but resilient and reliable.
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| | Doorgaan! | napoleon - 26.09.2006 17:47
Er is een filosofiedocent aan de Universiteit van Humanistiek die zijn studenten voor twee weken naar een buitenhuis in Frankrijk meeneemt om daar láát op te staan, te eten en te drinken en tot vroeg in de ochtend te discussiëren. Iedere dag.
Alle studenten- ook de hekkensluiters- waren zó gemotiveerd dat ze allen hun doctoraal behaalden.
Zo kan het ook, ookal druist het tegen de comformistische en burgerlijke, moderne regels in die op de universiteit gelden.
Maar vecht door!
Vecht door voor een betere, volwassenere, onafhankelijkere (minder commercieële), 'sfeervollere' en academischere universiteit!
| | Beveiling is ok | MetdePet - 26.09.2006 18:56
Ik heb er ook wekelijks mee te maken, maar ik zie het probleem niet.
De beveiling zorgt ervoor dat er maar één route naar buiten en maar één route naar binnen is naar elke dag. Ik ben eerstejaars dus ik weet niet of het daarvoor zo'n chaos was na elk hoorcollege (het gaat enkel om de paar grote collegezalen), maar ik vind het best om dan maar die uitgang te nemen.
Het is jammer dat het geld moet kosten die ook anders aangewend kan worden, dus voor mij is vooral de vraag of het zo'n groot probleem was.
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