Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potentialities Peace Corps may be dissipated by misuse and misinformation. of the Corps that is presently being disseminated through official and unofficial channels is full of impressions that may dangerous and misleading both for Americans and for citizens nations. In several specific areas, an attempt should be immediately to correct those impressions, if necessary even any concrete steps are taken to implement the Peace Corps...
...Peace Corps films of a team of American students sledge-hammers on a Guinean hillside. Magazine articles newspaper stories about voluntary work-camp projects have blurred the public conception of the Peace Corps and its The image presented in these articles-and the recent Wash- Conference did little to correct it--is of a sort of international with a college diploma. Sooner or later, the Peace Corps will against the inescapable reality that manual labor is not its that it cannot succeed on the model of exchange work-camp like the American Friends Service Committee camps or on Crossroads-Africa...
What could be more rote drill than Skinner's "one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately 'reinforcing' each correct response with a grain of corn." What could be more inflexible than this or the sample of a programed high school physics lesson as shown...
Last month Strongman Walter Ulbricht himself took a hand in the matter and ordered party followers to "determine what are the reasons behind the migration . . . and take steps to correct them." Trouble is that Communism's proven means of sealing borders-land-mined strips, barbed-wire barriers and machine-gun-equipped watchtowers-cannot be used in Berlin, where most of the defections take place, because four-power regulations governing the city require sectoral borders to remain open, and the elevated and subway trains link Eastern and Western parts of the city...
...Dirt. Fantastic and confused though symptoms of anxiety can be, there is often a kind of logic, even a dramatic beauty or poetic justice, about them. They seek to compensate for what is lacking. Thus, according to the Jungian school, the unconscious tries to correct or heal disorganization of the ego?or of society?by doggedly creating images of value, order and meaning. This process can produce fanatics, prophets and saints; it did produce, according to the analytic view of history, Torquemada, Calvin, Knox and Jonathan Edwards. No one can say what prophets or fanatics the U.S. may produce...