Word: civic
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...University and the Public Interest," that "the purpose of education, as opposed to information, is to lead us to some sense of citizenship, to some shared assumptions about individual freedoms and institutional needs..." He then bemoans the move "away from an education concerned at heart with ethical choice and civic effort and toward a view of schooling as immediately, intensely, insistently useful...
...than an attempt by students to be "winners" in Giamatti's terms, an attempt to deal with the current economic situation--as the Yale alumni who heard his speech on athletics doubtless did. In their time--and experience that intrinsic satisfaction (I imagine) that comes from being rich. The "civic effort" can come later--as it does from "winning" Yale alumni who can afford to be generous...
Giamatti's ideas are welded together by his forceful yet delicate style. Nearly every paragraph is quotable. Though his highly-publicized condemnation of the Moral Majority does not appear in this book (it doubtless will in his next), and though he is more concerned with the civic than the social dimension of education. Giamatti does not stay mute on contemporary problems. In "Power, Politics and a Sense of History"--a remarkably presumptuous title for a 4000-word essay--he declares...
Dozens of politicians, civic groups and religious leaders endorse a concrete alternative offered by the Employment Research Associates. The idea involves a trial $10 billion shift from military to civilian industries. Specifically, the money would go to develop solar and wind energy, gasahol production, the modernization of the nation's railroads, and several other alternative industries that serve a national purpose. Converting the economy from war to peace industries brings an added benefit: more jobs. Military spending employs fewer people than almost any other sector of the economy. One billion dollars spent by the Pentagon creates 75,710 jobs...
Sullivan opposes proposals to consolidate neighborhood schools and also the desegregation plan instituted by the Cambridge Civic Association, which presently commands a 5-2 majority of the committee...