Passion is something that gets under appreciated in academic learning. I guess academia is about empiricism... But we bastardise so much. If the arts were primarily about empirical research then there wouldn't be any artworks for art conservationists and art historians to dissect. And the whole art world just would not exist.
Creativity is the soul of art making, but I feel like it gets ignored in some ways, maybe because we can't decided what it is or where it comes from.
The UNSW motto is "manu et mente", and I thought, in first year, what about "heart"? Cor means heart in Latin, and it's where we get "core" from. The tricky realm of feeling is the core of the existence of the humanities.
I'm starting to sicken at the amount of theoretical content that needs to be ingested to earn a degree in education. Because theory seems like a mirror, it gives us a pretty trustworthy reflection, but it's flat and hard and cold. What it doesn't reflect is a whole internal world of processes that are inherent to our area of study. And I feel that it is causing a schism between what we do and how we talk about what we're doing.
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