Apropo de diferența dintre educație și formarea profesională, iată cum răspunde la întrebarea "La ce bun latina?" Anthony Grafton, istoric al Renașterii, profesor la Princeton, pe care și Ponta ar putea să-l citească cu folos, întrucât a scris o carte despre istoria notelor de subsol: "Suppose the parent of a freshman said to you, I don’t want my kid to spend her time at Princeton studying Latin. Well, first I’d say that it’s up to the kid to decide what she wants to do. But the point of Princeton and places like it has never been to teach practical things that one can go out and use directly. Even our undergraduate architecture degree is a liberal arts degree; it doesn’t train you to become a practicing architect. Most of our engineering majors don’t become engineers. We’re a liberal arts institution. I think our common faith is that if you study one liberal art in a deep and serious way, learning something about others as you do, you will have an awfully good training that will stand you in good stead in any profession. Our belief is that this approach gives a deeper education and a deeper kind of human formation than a more practical training. I think that what’s important is that a kid does something deep and rich and serious. The History Department at Princeton really offers that. We’re serious about languages; we’re serious about small discussion groups; we’re serious about faculty working one-on-one with students. I like to think that what we do in the humanities is like the “slow food” movement in cooking. There are certain things you can only do slowly and individually. There’s no way to speed up the process and do it right." Cine are timp, poate urmări și seria lui de conferințe în apărarea studiilor umaniste.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:40:52 +0000
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