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...roads. Nehru's sophisticated aides, their minds on turbo-electric power, had once brushed off this holy man's ideas. But now Nehru needed Bhave's help to find for India a way of raising food production and the peasant standard of living without using the coercion and brutality employed by Red China...
...your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
...time is not so far off as one might think, but the idea of machines for teaching brings up many problems not noticed at first glance. Grading systems would probably have to be greatly revised; the entire concept of education by coercion, motivation, threat and sweat would have to be reexamined; and the application of scientific principles to secondary education would have to be considered. Professor Skinner himself has said: "In the light of our present knowledge a school system must be called a failure if it cannot induce students to learn except by threatening them not to learn...
...includes the southern Asians in the latter group. Rising though it does from their desperate poverty, their demand for social and economic reform is keener because of the example of China's startling industrial expansion. Nehru sees this as a challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion, but in other countries it seems to be felt as a challenge to which democracy has no answer...
...basic issues right to the people just as unions themselves have done for years. Says Co-Director Jim McDevitt of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee on Political Education: "There's nothing wrong if a company tries to get its executives to promote its candidates-providing there's no coercion, and a man's job is not put in jeopardy...