It should be learning how to not know. Cixous suggested that the university be conceptualized as a space comparable to theater, where students can explore different roles, perspectives and attitudes, and where the unexpected can happen. The child is right. And with this art we can personally probe all the secrets of all human destinies, private and political, and taste the fruits of the tree of good and evil with our own mouth. Imagine the university, then, as a place that offers a silk roof without walls to student-artists who are passing through, Cixous said.
Students are a people living, dreaming, brilliant, with fragile skin.
As a people, they have a power of poetical playfulness and a freedom of language that escapes them when they are isolated.