Studentii Universitatii din Amsterdam au inceput au initiat o miscare mai mult sau mai putin spontana protestand impotriva corporatizarii si financializarii procesului de invatamant din cadrul universitatii cat si din sistemul de invatamant in ansamblu. Bannerul lor mi se pare superb. In acelasi timp, cand ma uit la aceasta poza, ma apuca jalea cand ma gandesc la studentii romani profund devotati sistemului, fara o viziune de ansamblu si cu elemente critice anemice vis-a-vis de politic, economic si social. Ei nu au reusit sa-si dea seama inca ca aici nu ne confruntam cu o problema de cadre politice ci cu una de sistem. Se afla inca la faza in care cred cu sinceritate ca au fost adusi pe lume de barza. <<"It's becoming a degree factory," she said about UvA.
Natalie Scholz, professor of history at the university, wrote that struggling "to keep up with the output expectations in everything we do," as demanded by the existing university structure, "we are quickly paralyzed by the thought, 'You are not good enough.' "
She said this culture of fear and shame is tied to the university's obsession with reputation and public image.
"It suddenly feels like you're harming the university when you become critical," she told Truthout over the phone while away in Vienna, a city with its own history of student radicalism dating back to the "world revolution" of 1848, when students in the Academic Legion militia led the struggle against Habsburg absolutism.>>
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