Open AccessThe Human Vocation: An Autobiography of Higher Education
Author(s) -
John McMurtry
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.3.2.14
Subject(s) - disconnection , action (physics) , biography , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , art , political science , law , literature , physics , quantum mechanics
To be honest, I backed into the academic profession after trying almost everything else. Until then, I perceived the academic’s work as a disconnection in symbolic spheres, "merely academic". Only as I came to recognise that concepts are the governors of action did I realize that the real action was thinking through the life-blind programs I saw all around me. Since thinking through is the vocation of the university, that is where I ended up. But I am getting ahead of myself.