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...students in planning the form and content of the discussion. Most groups will have a leader who will suggest initial directions, but the sense of the entire group should determine the course the discussions take. We want to encourage cooperative inquiry because it engenders communal sentiment- which is rarely found in atomistic, competitive teacher-centered discussion classes. Not that we want to discourage intellectual guidance- rather, we want an educational structure which will encourage teachers to relate their knowledge directly to the personalities and interests of their students. Moreover, we believe that student participation in determining methods of study...
Despite the predominance of group action at Havard nowadays, this sensibility has the individual as its major point of reference and departure. I think enchantment with the individual found its flowering as a force in modern history with the existentialist movement, with the popularity of Kierkegaard, Dostoevesky, Sartre, Camus; and in this country (in some way) with Salinger; for blacks with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the poetry of Le Roi Jones and the social criticism of Eldridge Cleaver; and in Southern literature with the heroes and anti-heros of William Faulkner...
...poctry, this new sensibility and enchantment with the individual is found in the poems of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and others. The Lowell poetry is confessional poetry, I have thought, and recently I bought a record of his autobiographical poems. I think these poems told me how he came to wrest a new view of the world from his old background. And, as I remember his poetry, with the fragmentary recall we use to remember such literature, these themes come to mind: love, anger at unintended cruelty, cynicism, a restlessness in the presence of old portraits, and a cry that...
...humanity of our views in this community translated into policies and practices? The humanity I refer to here is yet an unexamined idea in this little essay. The word humane is to be found in a great deal of liberal talk. It seems in a bland definition that one is kind and considerate, and, of course, that is not enough. And this definition certainly does not reflect the new sensibility to which I referred. The way one must "come on" nowadays to be "with it" is a style that is more crazy than the liberal way would have...
...remember a phrase from a Lowell poem that had him complaining that when he found himself troubled and looking around for some way out, all he saw were "useless things." The task for the Harvard administration has to do with throwing out those useless things by responding to that sensibility sometimes illuminated for us by a single line...