‘Symbols for Education’

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(Nov 18, 2024) ‘Symbols for Education’ restored, reinstalled at Brock Commons South
https://ubyssey.ca/culture/symbols-for-education-reinstalled-at-brock-commons/

first installed in 1958 under commission from that year’s graduating class.
the mural was taken down in 2020 to make way for the construction of Brock Commons South.

The mural is a 54-block glass mosaic representing UBC’s faculties and departments, with the artists using abstract, intersecting lines to express the interconnectedness of disciplines, students and staff.
The team chose to upgrade the framing to bronze, a more resilient material than the original, to better shield the individual mosaic panels from further weathering.

Lamp of Knowledge
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(12)62743-8/pdf

The lamp of knowledge (life) is the official symbol of the nursing profession and of higher education.
The inspiration for adopting the lamp of knowledge as the official symbol for higher education could have come from the story of the Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes (412?- 323 BC). Diogenes is said to have carried a lantern at noon in search of an “honest man,” the honest man possibly representing truth and knowledge, although the relationship of knowledge to higher education is obvious.

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