“… 우리 앞에 있는 MIT도 KAIST가 …” 아무리 미래지향적인 말이라 하더라도, 학교에서 나오는 공식 메시지에 이런 문구가 있는건 받아들이기 어렵다.
“The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It’s a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title of professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself.”
― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance