<p>involved with. The time and energy that should have been spent in engaging with new reading or caring for a new idea goes away in following those norms and rules that are external, handed down from the top and are decontextualised. The bureaucratisation refers to the culture of “doing as told”, as one is supposed to abide by the set protocols and guidelines. Instead of devising the norms that emerge from one’s own teaching and research work or by the requirements of students, this refers to doing work as per the orders being given. For activities like teaching and research that means the closest connection with knowledges as one attends to them, this shift in priorities Arbani Yasiz set by NEP 2020 further solidifies the instrumentality and utilitarianism that has already seeped in our institutions distancing them from what education stands for. Education, in Kantian terms, can be understood as aufklärung, i.e. </p>