However, and unfortunately, despite the achievement of this similarity was a of excuses for their implementation, I have (nor have I met anyone who have) the impression that that will happen with the Bologna-who wants to take a stroll through the newly reformed universities will see their campus, including the names "excellent", yet still have no Oxonian atmosphere, and even are a bit more cheesy than before and more like the playground of the ESO, "nor does it seem I go to this being the result of the implementation of the bureaucracy delusional rating agencies and the fascinating Teacher Status which will help professor on the basis of management positions with a zero in research (see the university to come: teachers for points, EJ forum Azcarraga, in The Land of 03/03/2011).
Finally, also disbelieve that they will achieve this by practicing what Professor Joseph Montserrat, in a letter to the editor, aptly called "scientific nationalism" advocated in these pages by teachers Ortín and Alvarez (There is no science without competition , The Country of 12-3-2011) and all we get dizzy with the famous rankings of the best universities worldwide.
Not that I deny the validity of these classifications: that would be stupid on my part as questioning the effectiveness of debt rating by rating agencies of financial risk when I see decreased efficiency with which my salary every month.
But as more than 3,000 economists signed the Manifesto of terrified (Pas Perdus, Madrid, 2011) have expressed doubt that markets are the best Justices of the solvency of the States, I also housed some of the fairness of those ratings, which are relevant to scientific excellence a relationship similar to the list of Top 40 with musical quality: tell us what else sold (and in this sense, the most competitive), but not always the best sellers is the best-I hope you excuse me from having to argue extensively this statement, about which, see the instructions Farewell to the University, Jordi Llovet (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2011).
fill us with admiration If names like Oxford and Cambridge is not only or primarily because they appear in the top of a hit parade of market knowledge that has been published for four days. As noted by Juan Rojo, to know the quality of a university "does not lack any form or track the number of tutorials, or control the number of students per class. Do not even need to use the word Bologna. Just stick to recognized scientific prestige. " (The second law of thermodynamics, El Pais 03/31/2011).
This superiority is due, among other things, a tradition that has made these institutions in what some call disparagingly as "tombs of wisdom", a tradition of excellence does not rest only on reaching the finish line first (which is precisely the origin of the notion of "excellence" to handle so proudly today Sportsmanship supporters), but before particularly in the autonomy of scientific knowledge regarding the economic and political powers that have always been tempted to control knowledge and put at your service independence being one of the hallmarks of universities from which science is separated from the magic and theology.
And this is one of the reasons that I find troubling self-confidence in the market knowledge through free competition-a belief on which the current global economic situation could yield at least some doubts, and the attempt to replace the old universities and new "centers of knowledge production." Well, as rightly pointed out in his commentary Simon Head of January last academic capitalism and the new Economy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011) in Book magazine The New York Times, which threatens the quality and academic freedom of universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) are assessment procedures that are dependent on their continuity and sustainability parameters set by extra-scientific terms, namely profitability in the production of knowledge that both defend the sponsors of university rankings, because in this case there is the danger that "just one example, are the pharmaceutical companies that decide the direction of research in organic chemistry or the Councils of the autonomous communities who determine the direction of classical philology.
Of course one can defend, even for patriotic reasons, this model of competitive production for the market of knowledge, but who does it must clearly admit that acts the destruction of modern enlightened universities as we know from the XVIII century, just as some say, based on completely objective classifications with respect to the strength of so-called "emerging countries" - that democracy is not competitive on a global economy.
In Regarding the comments of depth psychology and anthropology major on the competitive essence of human nature with which this season is sometimes controversial, its purely ideological vacuum clearly highlights the contrast between his rhetoric and bombast of poverty and confusion of its arguments (can not defend both the cooperative and competitive nature of science). Away from me, in any event to minimizing the scope of the desire of glory along the history of mankind: wars never wanting to witness his unequivocal importance.
But if, Despite our long-standing military-sporting instincts, admit that not everything is to win, since the murder, extortion, blackmail and violence are highly competitive and yet punish them, is that we accept that there is something more important than competition itself something that is of another order to her and what she must submit and which is to limit, rather than the classic called truth, justice and beauty (three Marys who, alas, not going to be in the rankings of the production of knowledge) , which is certainly weighing on the fact that, whatever the psychological springs of the men who made the relevant findings still give us a little bit of shame say that the Pythagorean theorem, the law of falling bodies of Galileo or the theory of special relativity seem admirable because they are very competitive.
And that competitiveness is no longer a relationship between men. Science, by contrast, is primarily a relation to things which, being reduced to human rivalries can sometimes serve to make a dignified peace among mortals.
But when the truth about of things is subordinated to the ambitions and rivalries of men, even if it means economic and political successes short term, it may be that the elevated bridges crumble under that principle to the first storm or buildings erected on this basis come down to the weather leaving its inhabitants, despite having engaged in the world rankings so glorious a seat such as Lehman Brothers a few days before its bankruptcy, because nature just punishing, often in a rather diplomatic, myopia, irresponsibility and incompetence of this view as sporty.
(*) is a philosopher José Luis Pardo
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