Word: kilson
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However, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, challenges this opinion, maintaining that there is no racist barrier to his authority, and says he feels that "blacks who think they are powerless are suffering from pathological paranoia...
Some blacks at Harvard, though, do not agree with Guinier's view. Kilson insists that any racism that may be present is "not fundamental" and "is essentially residual." Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, also agrees that there is no organized discrimination against qualified blacks...
...other hand, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, says that he is attracted to the Extension School because it offers a "broader intellectual and social experience than that associated with being an academic." Kilson, who is offering "Ethnic Politics in America" in his twelfth year of extension instruction, says that he is "hooked" on teaching extension courses because the "far more variegated background" of the school's students "brings an added dimension to discussions...
...example," Kilson explains, "the kinds of examples students produce to elaborate an argument or to explain a point is very different from the intellectual's examples. It's much more out of the stuff of lower-class and middle-class working people. For instance, there have been policemen in my class. Their knowledge of politics is unique--it adds to my own grasp of conflicts in urban political life...
...however, as Kilson claims, and as others in continuing education would surely agree, adult education has an added dimension about it, a richness lacking from undergraduate instruction in which the student body is markedly homogeneous in terms of age and social background, then perhaps Harvard educators should study extension school education more closely with the idea of integrating it into the College. Maybe only when people such as the policeman in Kilson's course are present in the undergraduate classroom will college discussions take on the edge of reality they now so often lack...