Академизмът като норматив
Academism as a Norm

Summary/Abstract: Since its appearance about 2400 years ago, the concept ACADEMY (originally Pluto’s academia) has undergone most various realizations in practice so far. Unlike certain widely spread views, which instrumentalize academy mainly as the place for (higher) teaching of knowledge, the author considers that in the academic “temple of science”, knowledge should be created and grown, before being taught to the subjects of tuition. The academic tutors teach not only their students, but themselves as well. Academism can be treated as a guard of ACADEMY in the form of an operative system of criteria on the level of knowledge as well as of the manner of its teaching. Expressed normatively in a system of external indices, evaluating which is academic and which is not, academism - unlike academy - not rarely has a tendency towards cooling and conservatism, getting into contradiction with “the eternally green tree of practice” (Goethe). Then it becomes “bad” academism. Unlike “good” academism, which gradually - and not without curious incidents -managed in Bulgaria to academize even such music practices, which - like traditional music and rock music - are by origin diametrically different from the “educated arts”

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