The Classroom as a Sacred Space - Siva Vaidhyanathan

[matchbox555]

what point is this guy making ?

[mikzilla0]

I went to an online college; I'm curious what he would say about the online classroom and if that is a "sacred space". It doesn't have a teacher "preaching" knowledge, it doesn't have the rows of students. Students learn on their own.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Wow, he managed to speak for 3 minutes without saying a single thing except that universities grew out of monasteries, which is only true in a very blinkered sense.

[Robfenix]

This guy is trained in communications/media and still says "um" that much?!

[numbah1pinoy]

Oh alright, I guess this guy's head is just full of shit. lol

[jalgjalg]

"Sacred" is a word stupid people use when they don't understand something but still want to come over as profound.

[ArcaneKarma]

Can't we just call it an ACADEMIC space? I mean really, I know that there's only so many books that haven't been written / theses that haven't been made, but come on now.

[Th3Wab3]

strange, the institutions that brought together learning and knowledge are now the greatest suppressors of knowledge and learning..

[GBS990]

Education usually requires people to be exposed to ideas they don't like, even the ones that say you might not be the center of the universe.

[GBS990]

Gee, and I thought it was about transferring knowledge.

[1RadicalOne]

The classroom is sacred? Tell that to Don McLeroy and his band of politically motivated ignorants actively rewriting the education curriculum in the entire United States to favor right-wing extremist viewpoints.

[eirefrance]

@1RadicalOne And Don McLeroy offends you because.....

Education is too sacred to fall victim to petty wiles of political machination. I think Mr. Vaidhyanathan is describing how our society views educational spaces pretty nicely.

[1RadicalOne]

Because he abuses his chairmanship of the Texas Board of Education to force politically extremist and fundamentalist Christian positions into the textbooks, and eliminate all opposing viewpoints.

And since Texas buys so many books, that affects the publishers' decisions and thus the entire United States.

[chrisose]

It could easily be said that a college classroom has a major commercial aspect to it. Very few enter such a space without either paying or being paid to be there.

[MultiUniv3rsal]

Nothing is sacred.

[BrokenBassBin]

Siva Vaidhyanathan, media professor and author of The Googlization of Everything, describes the classroom as a sacred space. He calls the classroom "a fifth space," distinct from public space, private space, commercial space, and the state.

[MultiUniv3rsal]

@BrokenBassBin There are only 2 types of 'space' Public and private. There are no words that exist that aren't encompassed in those 2 types. This man is getting paid to waste your time.

[numbah1pinoy]

@MultiUniv3rsal Exactly,

[Asiablue]

@MultiUniv3rsal Actually, there are 3 types of spaces. The third is 'wasted,' an example of which you have generously provided with the above comment.

[MultiUniv3rsal]

@Asiablue Zing! Actually that was pretty funny

[ijust1]

And this information is useful...how?