El movimiento estudiantil: actualidad y retrospectiva

Abstract

Before asking what a student movement is, the author tells us that we have to know the nature of the institution where it is born: the university. Ever since the High Middle Age, he says, the university has characterized itself for its corporate structure. This implies a certain amount of isolation with the outside. Moreover, as a corporation, a university means hierarchy and privilege. These two elements may be dangerous when the institution is penetrated by politicians.

In fact, the political invasion of scientific spheres terribly deforms the notion of autonomy. Thus, hierarchy, privilege and isolation produce an explosive mixture: the university loses its nature as a source of knowledge and tums into a parcel of corruption. Certainly, a free university must not divorce itself from reality; however, social interaction and feedback must wolves, meaning mature ideas and not utopian anachronism. In short, the author concludes, a university must generate social confident, starting with itself.