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Certainly some lecturers are more scintillating than others, but by peddling lectures as the primary mode of learning, some so-called teachers convey distance from and disinterest in their courses and students. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote that to lecture is "to instruct insolently and dogmatically." If Harvard students call for more personal education, it is because they have found this dictum out for themselves...
...students sent a letter to The Crimson in October 1969 which criticized Ebert's ties with Squibb. The letter said that Evert, then a director of Squibb, could not instruct his medical students on sensible prescription practices while advising a major manufacturer of brand-name drugs...
Just as uninspiring as the Study Group suggestions for reform is the last chapter--a "Primer for Citizen Action." Provided to instruct citizens on how to obtain both institutional changes and policy improvement, the primer stresses that "Congress has been moved by men and women with no special wealth or influence, little or no political experience, and no uncommon genius, but with the modest combination of commitment to a cause and the facts to make a case." Like the Wizard of Oz telling the lion that he needed only a medal, Douglass W. Cassel, the author of this section, counsels...
...fable about a Ute boy who comes finally to a hard-won maturity. As a child, Tom Black Bull lived in the Colorado mountains with his parents. When they died, he went to school on the Indian reservation, lured there by the promise that he would be allowed to instruct the other children in the old ways-the rich rituals and traditions of the tribe that were Tom's only legacy from his parents. The school supervisor, however, had a different idea, expressed with smug official tolerance: "Let him learn the new ways first...
...committed artists with political intentions. There are the famous propaganda films--Leal Riefenstahl's Olympia and Triumph of the Will, the early Soviet Union silent classics, the American, "Why We Fight" series during World War II. But films which have dealt with social process in a direct attempt to instruct or instigate change are few and mostly foreign. Think of Battle of Algiers The Confession If the films of Godard...