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Another Japan scholar, Professor Ronald Dore of Sussex University, has lamented in a recent article in Pacific Affairs that in many countries, the process of education has degenerated into the business of training people who are "qualified." Dore comments that in Japan a college education is almost mandatory for self-advancement. As a result there is extreme pressure on students to qualify for college entrance, but the Japanese have managed to retain the spirit of improving themselves as individuals rather than merely acquiring qualifications. Dore attributes the Japanese desire for self-improvement to the existence of a pedagogical tradition before...
OTHER COUNTRIES which inherited educational systems from the colonial period have been less fortunate than Japan. Dore had the opportunity to visit Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1971, shortly before the outbreak of a rebellion led by educated youth. According to Dore, education in Ceylon had prepared students for jobs that were unavailable. Students thought of jobs as status symbols without "intrinsic satisfaction," or opportunities for self expression and self development and useful service to society." The Ceylon government quelled the rebellion with the most violent means available including arms obtained at the spur of the moment from...
...both Huston's outward-going vigor and intelligence, and his cynical acquiescence before influential studio heads; producer Gottfried Reinhardt's emotional attempts to salvage his film after Huston has left for Africa (one never is sure that for all his dedication Reinhardt really knows what his director is doing): Dore Schary's lip-service backing and Louis B. Mayer's outrages...
...largest island of an emerald archipelago 50 miles off the coast of South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Sometimes called Poulo Con-dore after its Portuguese discoverer, the lush, Manhattan-size territory was made into a penal colony by the French in 1862 and became known as the Devil's Island of Southeast Asia, from which no one returned. But many did, including nearly all the current top leadership of North Viet Nam and several senior South Vietnamese statesmen who served time there under the French...
Photographer Nina Leen and Physiologist Alvin Novick have freed the oat from the ignominy of Dore infernos and Transylvanian castles. Myths and tears concerning these shy nocturnal mammals are gently and gracefully blown away with the turning of each page in this unique contribution to the literature of natural history...