In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
Interpretation
Baudrillard suggests that just as we require politicians to manage power responsibly, we also need scholars to guide us in the pursuit of knowledge without degrading the learning experience.
In this quote, Jean Baudrillard reflects on the vital roles of statesmen and scholars in society. He draws a parallel between the necessity of statesmen to wield power wisely, thus preventing the negative aspects of authority, and the need for scholars to approach the act of learning with integrity and depth, avoiding its trivialization. Baudrillard emphasizes that both governance and education are crucial in shaping a meaningful society, highlighting the responsibilities that come with these roles.
In practice
As a professor, I often refer to Baudrillard when discussing the importance of integrity in education.
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
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