Coda: Reaching for higher education

Abstract

It has emerged here, surely, that we can always go on reaching for higher education. Possibilities-for reaching for higher education-continue to emerge, whether, for example, in connecting higher education with the public sphere, in widening the forms of knowledge with which it is connected, in firming its ethical character, and in widening the development of students. All manner of directions in reaching for higher education continue to open. These possibilities-again, as we have seen in this volume-are of two kinds. Possibilities are real: They really do exist in the world, as new forms of knowledge form, as new opportunities emerge for universities to engage with the world and as students' own lives become more complex and their hopes of higher education widen. Possibilities are also imaginary. This does not imply a measure of fantasy and non-realism. Imaginary possibilities are those that may be imagined and such possibilities may well be feasible.