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...President rested his initiative on some new findings by his new Science Advisory Committee headed by Presidential Adviser James Killian. Net of the findings: international inspection, though not foolproof, is feasible, and more than 25 international inspection teams roaming the U.S., another 25 or 50 roaming the U.S.S.R.. ought to be able...
...There are ways that do not lead to such dead ends for the scientist, but they are difficult ways. One is the way of a Conant or a Killian: deliberately to enter into the experiences and to assume the responsibilities and the disciplines that have to do with the art of human relations. The product of this dual discipline, in the scientist-statesman, can be one of our most valuable public servants in times like this. "For those who do not have a genius for the double task, there is another choice. This is simply to put their truth...
Three observers who were worried about the state of U.S. education long before Russia's metal moons made the subject generally popular offered some observations last week about what is wrong. The three: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology president and special assistant to the President for science and technology; Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover. father of the atomic submarine; and Dr. Merle Antony Tuve, director of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
...Killian, who spoke with the others to an audience of high school principals and math and science teachers in Washington, B.C., said it is futile to accelerate science education without raising the level of education in general, and that first there must be an end to "the mucker pose that it's smart to be anti-intellectual." He called for "a weeding out of the trivial, narrowly vocational subjects...
...among high school teachers by giving them time off for their own scholarship, and 2) Rickover's observation -prompted by a remark on the "union card" restrictions for teacher .certification fossilized into law by pressure from the teachers' colleges: "I hope this audience knows that neither Dr. Killian nor Dr. Tuve could qualify for a permanent teaching job in the high schools of this city...