"... makes sense within, and in the XXI century, that civil and public university, the University of Zaragoza, an institution State public, hold a formal religious pattern, which is considered festive celebration and non-school? --------------------------------
San Braulio is the official patron the University of Zaragoza
. As is my "Alma Mater" I know a little case. He was a writer and Bishop of Zaragoza, back in the seventh century. Character was of some importance at the time, no doubt, and had some ralación with another conspicuous character, San Isidoro de Sevilla.
But not concern us here their fortunes and their achievements, but the fact that, today, follows the holy Zaragozano being the boss of the city's public university.
Antonio Aramayona , professor of philosophy at the university, the question today in an article in the Journal of Aragon
entitled "Gaudeamus Igitur." Amen , and already published last day 21 in his personal blog,
utopia is needed, what needs a religious pattern as San Braulio a public university such as Zaragoza.
describes the ceremony of 2010 highlighting some issues that he himself described as surreal:
"... the Chancellor speak again:" Here's the word Prof. Dr. Don XX, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, who will deliver the eulogy speech in honor of the patron Saint Braulio, entitled mitochondrial genome disease.
Surely, cracked the foundation of the University of Zaragoza and its history in trying to understand this act of transvestism on the mutated mitochondrial genome in a speech ("speech or argument usually brief and directed by a superior to inferior , followers or subjects ") laudatory (" praising or containing praise ") in honor of the patron (" defender, protector, "" protector chosen by a people or congregation, whether it be a saint, the Virgin Mary or Jesus in any of its invocations) San Braulio.
Contradictory, I think.
Vindication Aramayona teacher could not be more consistent and tailored to today's reality:
"In a pluralistic society like the present and in a secular State as required by the Constitution 1978 English no sense for a public university and civil own holiday kept as principal of a Catholic bishop of the seventh century as a saint venerated by the faithful of the Catholic confession.
Aragon has a large number of intellectuals and artists of first rank, in whose honor the University of Zaragoza could hold an official holiday unanimous. For example, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Francisco de Goya, Maria Moliner, Luis Buñuel, Miguel Catalán, Joaquín Costa , etc.
Why do you need a religious employer a public university like the University of Zaragoza? Surely, the overwhelming response in the academic world is indifference, laziness, disinterest, apathy and inertia in this regard by much of academia. Thus are born, grow, mature and vegetate traditions. "
continues glossing the merits of the patron saint:
" ... his intellectual contribution in any field of rational knowledge and scientific knowledge is quite little or no: namely, his epistolary relationship (about 44 letters) with Isidore of Seville, his work " Life and miracles of San Millan de la Cogolla " and its protagonist participation in the councils of Toledo V and VI, where among other decrees on all things extremely hard persecutory measures against the Jews.
in 2011 would not be unreasonable to consider whether Braulio of Zaragoza is qualified for the festival will be dedicated institutional university, considering also the considerable number of figures of literature, the arts and sciences who were born, lived or worked in Aragon.
The March 25, 2011, the day after tomorrow repeat the ceremony, presumably in similar terms. And the teacher asks whether Kant Aramayona assist in a remarkable act of "lifting the head" and wonder about
"the need for man to come out of his minority, ie the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another ".
And the climax is definitive:
"... everyone is guilty of this a minor when the cause of it lies not in lack of understanding but in lack of resolve and courage to use it independently without the conduct of another, leaving to stay with pleasure under her throughout life, due to laziness and cowardice.
therefore find it so easy to set himself up as some tutors, employers and employers. "
The university has been characterized in recent years by its enormous capacity of inbreeding, intellectual inertia and stagnation. Do not get me wrong: there are excellent teachers I myself had no less than half a dozen really bright, but what should be an advanced training center that contributes to the betterment of society in all its aspects, has been half way between unfinished reforms, outdated syllabi, campus of those who extend their academic life to avoid swelling the ranks of the unemployed, studies of questionable utility and budget shortfalls evident.
Anyway, it seems that for the same reason San Braulio is still the pattern, the designs of the university are governed by the same patterns. My apologies
principals who have fought to improve the university at the expense of their own research and teaching careers. But here is a belated manifests.
endorse the words of Antonio Aramayona. Amen. Same
should review the anthem
of the university, Gaudeamus igitur
and recovery, at least in part, its spirit and its literalness. --------------
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Artist of Article
Gaudeamus igitur, which I also recommend reading.
