Apostolos Koutropoulos writes, "the fetishization of campus culture, exhibited both in this article and elsewhere in the world of academia, is what's preventing us from truly integrating new, smart, and healthy procedures that bring different together people, from many different locations, to accomplish goals." I agree, and his responses to various pro-campus arguments resonate with me (and, I would add, they apply to the office as well). Much of the distinct 'culture' created by in-person working and unscheduled run-ins is nothing more than fiction, and the rest is (as I've commented before) based on privilege. We could be offering the opportunity to anyone who wants it to access a quality education, but instead we've mythologized some sort of special kind of learning that can only take place in person and this is what justifies limiting access to only a few people.
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