At my workplace, I’ll be wrapping up the spring semester classes this Monday and Tuesday. Since I had to cancel classes in May due to my participation in a JICA Grassroots Project, I’m sorry to say that I’ve had to hold double-header sessions—one in the morning and one in the evening—for the students. Although the four-month period was short, I believe that through the weekly workshops, the students were able to practice formulating questions regarding issues related to engineering ethics. That is far more important than anything I might have said in class. Learning has already become relativized, and access to knowledge is not dependent on the amount of experience one has. However, since students have gone out of their way to come to the classroom—a closed space—I believe it is my job, as the facilitator, to create some kind of fusion there. In this day and age, anyone can easily find a research topic, and the infrastructure for doing so is in place. Rather than holding back these opportunities, opening them up and fostering them is likely the current role of university faculty. Or perhaps even that role will soon become unnecessary. It will no longer be a matter of one person teaching another; instead, people who are immersed in their own worlds will create friction within themselves and give birth to strange new things. If a physical space is needed for that purpose, then that space will be the campus.
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