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...unfit--that is the chief issue of birth control." Sanger didn't say those words; in fact, she condemned them as a eugenicist argument for "cradle competition." To her, poor mental development was largely the result of poverty, overpopulation and the lack of attention to children. She correctly foresaw racism as the nation's major challenge, conducted surveys that countered stereotypes regarding the black community and birth control, and established clinics in the rural South with the help of such African-American leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary McLeod Bethune...
Technology also promotes democracy--the exact opposite of what Orwell foresaw. The fax machine helped bring down communism, and the Net makes state control of information impossible. Even in free countries, citizens have new powers to communicate with and about their elected rulers. A.J. Liebling said that freedom of the press was guaranteed only to those who own one. Now almost anyone...
Both were raised in lower-middle-class circumstances by strong mothers who foresaw great things for their sons. Jordan was born in Atlanta in 1935; his father was a postal worker, his mother a caterer to upper-class whites. Tending bar at their parties, Jordan saw the kind of life he wanted to lead, a kind of life then denied to blacks. His aspirations led him into the civil rights movement. After earning a bachelor's degree at DePauw University and a law degree from Howard, he came to prominence in 1961 when a howling white mob tried to prevent...
...Harvard's 400th Anniversary, he foresaw a truly international university. In his vision, by the year 2000, alumni would have endowed fellowships modeled on the Rhodes scholarships for students from more than 30 countries. By 2036, the number of foreign students would have increased to 5,000. Specialization in a foreign culture would be required of American undergraduates...
With amazing prescience, Chall foresaw what would happen if phonics instruction was taken too far. "[W]e will be confronted in 10 or 20 years with another best seller: Why Robert Can't Read. The culprit in this angry book will be the 'prevailing' [phonics] approach... The suggested cure will be a 'natural' approach--one that teaches whole words and emphasizes reading for meaning and appreciation at the very beginning." The rise of whole language perfectly corresponds to this scenario...