Salı, Kasım 19, 2013
"Life is going to present to
you a series of transformations. And the point of education should be to
transform you. To teach you how to be transformed so you can ride the waves as
they come. But today, the point of education is not education. It’s
accreditation. The more accreditation you have, the more money you make. That’s
the instrumental logic of neoliberalism. And this instrumental logic comes
wrapped in an envelope of fear. And my Ivy League, my MIT students are the
same. All I feel coming off of my students is fear. That if you slip up in school,
if you get one bad grade, if you make one fucking mistake, the great train of
wealth will leave you behind. And that’s the logic of accreditation. If you’re
at Yale, you’re in the smartest 1% in the world. […] And the brightest students
in the world are learning in fear. I feel it rolling off of you in waves. But
you can’t learn when you’re afraid. You cannot be transformed when you are
afraid"
Junot Díaz, speaking at Yale
