Comment 66646

By Mahesh_P_Butani (registered) - website | Posted July 20, 2011 at 16:49:00

Thanks you Lawrence and WRCU2 for our kind comments!

Appreciate your continuing dialogue Mogadon. Hamilton's institutions of higher education as well its K-12 system has reached its structural limits of self-critique - hence they are simply unable to generate the kind of solutions that our city rapidly requires to redirect its course.

Although many who are connected to these institutions talk the walk of change, they are as much victims of the education complex, as is the community.

Solutions that can impact real change, have to come from the outside of such institutions which have been modeled after the pre-industrial complexes that were built to morph but never evolve with times.

We need to fix what is fundamentally broken in our community before we can meaningfully fix its built-form. What is broken in our community is a way of thinking that has resulted in our great suburban-urban divide.

This can only be fixed by new educational enterprises that are not burdened by the rituals and dance that have made our present institutions "comfortably numb".

Our generation has failed to create many new meaningful educational enterprises in our core because we continue to approach institutional building with the profit v/s non-profit motives. However, the younger generation is fast overcoming this duality and is actively working with concepts such as 'social enterprise'.

Toronto's CSI is an example of this new thinking in action. An example well worth replicating in our very soon to be redeveloped city-owned building: the former Bannisters, across from the Royal Connaught.

Metropolitan Hamilton

Hamilton Reporter

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