1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,720 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,230 Ideas don't just fall from the sky. 3 00:00:10,230 --> 00:00:12,990 Cultural movements don't just happen because somebody 4 00:00:12,990 --> 00:00:15,270 has a good idea one day. 5 00:00:15,270 --> 00:00:19,560 Human culture is invariably materially, transmitted 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,220 or it doesn't exist at all. 7 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:25,140 Rare Book School at the University of Virginia 8 00:00:25,140 --> 00:00:28,020 is the world's leading academy for people 9 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:31,320 to come from all over the globe to study everything 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,020 from medieval manuscripts all the way 11 00:00:34,020 --> 00:00:36,450 through to Born digital materials 12 00:00:36,450 --> 00:00:38,910 and digital forensics. 13 00:00:38,910 --> 00:00:42,060 We offer about 50 different courses 14 00:00:42,060 --> 00:00:44,910 that are taught by the world's experts 15 00:00:44,910 --> 00:00:49,500 and the knowledge and generosity of that faculty 16 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:52,800 is the heart of the classroom experience. 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,230 One of the great glories of Rare Book School 18 00:00:55,230 --> 00:01:00,090 is its teaching collection, 80,000 items acquired 19 00:01:00,090 --> 00:01:04,379 and interpreted expressly for the hands-on teaching 20 00:01:04,379 --> 00:01:08,610 of the history of the book in all its many forms. 21 00:01:08,610 --> 00:01:11,820 There's no real substitute for that haptic knowledge 22 00:01:11,820 --> 00:01:14,400 for the holding of the artifact in your hand 23 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,160 and subjecting it to the proper interrogation, 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,770 the proper investigation. 25 00:01:19,770 --> 00:01:22,620 To study the history of print is to study 26 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:26,370 the record of human aspiration and achievement, 27 00:01:26,370 --> 00:01:30,330 to study the record of human loss and love. 28 00:01:30,330 --> 00:01:34,470 When you have 536 students come from 20 countries, 29 00:01:34,470 --> 00:01:37,530 you are making an intervention into the future 30 00:01:37,530 --> 00:01:39,540 of humanistic inquiry. 31 00:01:39,540 --> 00:01:42,270 They leave here with a sense that they're not 32 00:01:42,270 --> 00:01:46,080 meant to arrogate these things merely to themselves, 33 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,970 but to go transform the bookish community worldwide by what 34 00:01:50,970 --> 00:01:53,600 they've been given here. 35 00:01:53,600 --> 00:02:02,555