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...educators put David E. Lilienthal and Albert Einstein at the head of their list. President Conant ranked sixth...
...news of Physicist Einstein, see EDUCATION...
...justice," Einstein recalls, he might not have suffered so much as others from exams. He had to take only two in his whole time at the Polytechnic, and there were friends who could be counted on to attend all the lectures and keep conscientious record of the lecture points that freer spirits might otherwise have missed. Even so, it was bad enough...
Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has somewhat the same position in contemporary Protestant thinking that Einstein* has in science: Barth's complex system of thought is fully appreciated only by the highbrows, but, like Einstein's, his influence is wide and deep. When the Christian Century began a series of articles by theologians on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Past Decade," it led off with the contribution of 62-year-old Karl Barth...