Have we lost the common? Are we only left with opinions without any truth, loose opinions, likes and hates thrown into the void? Is it possible to lose the common? Will platforms end up beating territories, chats over conversation, applications over love? What is the role of knowledge institutions in times of democratization of information? Can there be institutions to know if we have lost the common?
Inversely to the solitary closure and the monologue, the University was born in the Middle Ages, motivated by a gregarious spirit, spaces to share knowledge, a “guild” in the most original sense of the Latin gremium (lap, refuge).
In their origins, Universities were ecumenical congregations of culture born from the vocation to universalize thought and not to crystallize knowledge.
Bearers of rituals, givers of meanings, defenders of their members, conciliators of reason and faith, Universities They are born as spaces of fraternity and coexistence, much more than as a collection and reserve of sciences..
At the moment, In Argentina, almost 1 million adolescents drop out of secondary school and 12 million over 25 years of age were left out of the formal schooling system.. Where do those million teenagers congregate? What are the laps, the refuges of those millions of unschoolers? Can the University return to that ancient desire for encounter that gave birth to it as host of social movements, promoter of alliances, builder of community? What role does the University have in the urgency of generating common senses of belonging?
The 3C proposal is a movement that tries to bring together in the chapel, in the clubs and in the school those who are dispersed, those who are left out, those who run the risk of being irreversibly fallen.. Beneath this triad, there runs the conviction that where there is listening, where there is discipline, where there are routines, new narratives of hope and redemption will be born. Finally, these narratives are also those at the origins of higher education: reconciling reason and faith, generating spaces of fraternity as a condition for the circulation of knowledge.
In times where opinion seems to have defeated truth and social networks seem to have distanced common fabrics, perhaps it is worth understanding that the common is not a reality to be imposed, but a power to be built. The University has the fundamental role here of generating alliances of openness, extending the privilege of knowledge, opening institutional spaces committed to generate the hope of common wisdom, with everyone, for everyone, by everyone.
Thus, in the attempt to combine the formal search for knowledge and the hope of common senses, the University must be extensive and intense: bring its sciences outward, but also bring other languages inward. Following this line of flow between scientific institutions and social movements, the National Congress of Education and Sportsin the conviction that where there are disciplines, where there are routines, where there are acts of culture, new narratives of hope and redemption will be born.
