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Nicole Larregui, Isabel Negron Rosado, Cristina Rodriguez, Pamela
Prof. Petra Avillan-León
Ingles Intermedio I 3103-132
August 28, 2016
Universities Purpose
What are universities for? This a topic that The School of Life approaches in a youtube video. The School of Life is an organization devoted to developing emotional intelligence through the help of culture. This can be seen in the video because when they question the purpose of the universities the proposed new departments like one how to deal with relationships another one to deal with anxiety as well as others that don't make part of the university. They argue that these are key to one's development as a human because the university is supposed to help you deal with all that life has to offer not just the professional aspect of it. According to The School of Life, the first universities were used for people to find meaning in life by learning about history and paintings instead of finding meaning in religion. Somewhere along the line that purpose of finding meaning in life went away and the goal was to educate one for the professional word, but what about the rest of the time when you are not working? Who will teach you to live? At first, that's what universities did but not anymore. As students who are still learning and developing we need that class to teach us how to deal with a breakup, teaches us how to make friends, teaches us how to do our taxes and deal with anxiety. The School of Life culminated their video saying that “The universities of the future” will do that.Estefania L Virella Rosa
Jaen M. Meléndez Rodríguez
Prof. Petra Avillan
Ingl 3123 001
What Are Universities For?
The universities started showing up in the mid XIX century the same time where there was a great decrease in the power of religion. At the time many had questions about life and it's meaning, about themselves, they searched for wisdom. Not getting the answers they wanted, people sought for them in universities.
Universities where built to teach people how to make a living and give them "keys" to attain the job they want. People often hope that in the university they will finally get important answers to questions like: who thay are, where our society should be headed, how can they be happier and more fulfilled, certain things needed to truly have the life they want, not only the job they want. The video states that if you were to go to any university in the world and start making questions like: "where should I go with my life", "what is my purpose", "how can we change the horrible and wrong things with the world" You won’t get an answer, they don't promote that type of thinking. That’s why in “What are universities for?” the speaker proposes that future universities should change departments like philosophy for a department of relationships, death, anxiety management, and self-knowledge to reflect the actual priorities of our life so we can live happily, with a full potential, to maybe get to answer those important questions we've always had, and to truly understand ourselves and not only how to make money.
Hi everybody,
the presentation will discuss in detail the first 6 pages, focusing on the techniques used. I will not present the passages of the protocol in detail, for obvious issues of time and because will be quite boring listening the details of the reagents and trouble shooting.
see you tomorrow
Barbara