{"id":185,"date":"2016-09-07T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/?p=185"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:42:18","slug":"students-are-not-here-to-worship-what-is-known-ubc-ubcnews-highered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/2016\/09\/07\/students-are-not-here-to-worship-what-is-known-ubc-ubcnews-highered\/","title":{"rendered":"Students “are not here to worship what is known” #ubc #ubcnews #highered"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”<\/strong>
\n(Bronowski, 1973\/2011,\u00a0pp. 341-342)<\/p>\n

\u201c… barefoot irreverence to their studies\u201d? \u201cnot here to worship what is known”?<\/p>\n

Is this true? What does it mean?<\/p>\n

\"postcard_an_85\"<\/a>In Chapter 11 of The Ascent of Man<\/em>— yes, ascent, not descent– Bronowski\u00a0makes a point about the “irony of history:”<\/p>\n

When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots\u2019 belief that they have absolute certainty. (p. 348)<\/p>\n

Heisenberg was a graduate of the University of G\u00f6ttingen, so Bronowski wants to make a point of the culture that eventually shaped the \u201cuncertainty principle.\u201d\u00a0“The symbol of the University,” he says,<\/p>\n

is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goose girl [the G\u00e4nseliesel] that every student kisses at graduation<\/a>. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. (p. 341)<\/p>\n

Now\u00a0comes the famous pronouncement on academic expectations:\u00a0“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”<\/p>\n

Is this true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.” (Bronowski, 1973\/2011,\u00a0pp. 341-342) \u201c… barefoot irreverence to their studies\u201d? \u201cnot here to worship … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228253,119,1378775,1378776],"tags":[78,2273],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum-studies","category-gender","category-learning","category-students","tag-learning","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp601a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}