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buildings to house and teach students and faculty.

We all know which model won! A concentration of self-moderating scholars soon led to things like (non-exhaustively): At first, there were two distinct models of university - the university of masters, of which Paris provided the prototype, which set teachers up as arbiters of all things, and the university of students, stemming from the processes used in Bologna, in which students determined what was taught and who taught it. At around the same time, city burghers in Bologna and Paris saw the benefit of having many rich students populating their streets for years at a time and helped to establish Europe's first universities. These students were, of course, quite rich - going to spend a few years at the feet of scholars is not something the average peasant would have ever dreamt of and grants were few and far between. They sat round while the great masters (always men) spouted their wisdom, wherever they happened to be located. It's a fertile space for mischievous monkey-paw demons lurking in the technologies we use.īefore the 12th Century, people used to visit scholars in order to learn stuff. You simply cannot do education without technologies, including language, pedagogies, and other infrastructure that surrounds the process. We come to rely on technologies to deal with problems caused by the technologies we already have.Įducation is massively technologized. Amongst the many factors that determine their development and uptake, technologies feed from and are spawned by other technologies.

Whole clusters of industries and intricate social structures, laws and institutions develop as a result of this. This creates a demand for new technologies to correct the problems of the ones that came before. From the large scale environmental and human catastrophes wrought by industrialization, mass ownership of cars or large-scale use of artificial fertilizers to the smaller things in life like the self-locking door that locks us out or the delights of autocorrect on iPhones, technologies are monkeys paws that grant our wishes while destroying other things we value. We build systems for one purpose and other things happen that we did not foretell and did not wish for. Jacobs tells of a talisman (the monkey's paw) that can grant three wishes but, when the wishes are granted, they result in horrific side-effects. The wind is a foreshadowing of bad luck, and a warning to the Whites as they interfere with fate.The story of the monkey's paw by W.W.

Finally, the cold wind surrounds the house as the Herbert’s corpse reanimates and attempts to get into the house. It howls as the next visitor arrives, delivering news of Herbert’s death. It his howling as the Whites await Morris, who is the harbinger of the paw and their subsequent bad luck. The cold wind is a constant throughout the story. Fate is something that cannot be changed, and when the Whites attempt to change it with the paw, fate finds a way to set things right. However, it is also a way to interfere with fate, and because of this, they are severely punished. The monkey's paw is an opportunity for the Whites to seize any possibility in the universe, and to satisfy their curiosity. Sometimes, questions are best left to be wondered about, rather than pursued. However, this curiosity leads to deadly consequences for Herbert, and absolute sorrow for Mr. It’s more of a test to satisfy his own curiosity than anything else. White isn’t exactly greedy in his wish for £200 it’s more something he would like to have, and it’s a wish that seems sensible. According to Morris, the old fakir who bewitched the paw, “wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.” The twisted irony of the paw is that it does, in fact, grant the wish however, because magic interferes with the way things are supposed to be, the wishes are granted at a serious price. White is determined to try to change something about his life, rather than being satisfied with all that he already has. The Consequences of Interfering with Fateĭespite Morris’ objections and warnings, Mr.