Institutions

Keys to the building allow me to use an Internet connection so I can write this. Nowadays, talk of online education have brought thoughts on Institutions.

If the granting institution confers degrees and offers online support, there is no problem. Covenants of common good give academic authorities the keys to titles. Here in Mexico we have a kind of academic warlord, ``cacique.'' By crook of by hook he gets the keys, the rest of us have to obey to receive salaries and other goodies. The problem lies in the qualifications of the warlord, if he himself is a scholar, there is no problem, but unfortunately it is not always so.

There is another problem, though. Scholars may be in charge but rules come above them. These may not always be logical or just; then one must change or bend the rules, starting a way down through a slippery slope.

Online, self taught, or autodidact individuals, need the support of Institutions nonetheless.

We go back to Hobbes. No way out.

Long Live Leviathan!