Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this reason, educational "reforms" such as abolition of exams and grades cannot be considered separately from the organization of society as a whole. Since the organization of the classroom is so intimately related to the organization of the prevailing social institutions, we can't challenge the first without at the same time challenging the second. If we say that the schools should not socialize people for alienated work situations, we must be prepared to argue that alienated work situations are not part and parcel of all advanced societies. Otherwise changing the schools could only create happy but useless people...
...rhythmic chants of black militants, often punctuated by the harsh rasp of bullhorns blaring out strike messages. The walled yard had the air of an ancient red brick city under siege. White sheets emblazoned with STRIKE in bold red letters hung from the windows of freshman dormitories and classroom buildings. Strike posters and copies of the antiadministration underground paper Old Mole were stapled to the venerable elm trees and pasted to the great door and massive columns of Memorial Church...
...major flaw in Freidel's argument in its failure to recognize that Faculty members, like students, occasionally judge students on personal rather than academic grounds. Indeed, a teacher's future status should be affected more by his classroom abilities than by his performance at cocktail parties, or department meetings. Fortunately, both students and Faculty are sometimes known to suppress their personal tastes in the interests of broader academic criteria. They may dislike a man for his dress or his politics and yet respect him for his scholarship. A system of checks like that now planned for Afro-American Studies should...
More importantly, classroom disruptions will inevitably turn the Faculty solidly against not only the strike but against the demands behind it. The Faculty demonstrated, at its meeting yesterday, a willingness to act on important issues behind the strike. It approved a resolution whose effect will be to abolish ROTC, and in so doing has properly transferred responsibility for this matter back to the Corporation. On the question of a black studies program, the astounding tactless decision to defer a vote on Afro's demands until next week should not obscure the Faculty's approval of the spirit of those demands...
...consensus that for the majority of Harvard students, the bulk of classroom experience is barren of relevance to one's existence as an integrated personality and to one's political and social commitments...