Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such freedom may be destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
Fear, inhibition and conformity operate primarily by determining what questions we will decide to ask, not what answers we will give. It is very easy, for example, to decide not to lec- ture on Russia. If you tell yourself that you don't know about Russia, or that it is not pertinent in this course, your personal integrity is never at stake. But once you decide to investigate Russia with your students, it is much harder to lie to them without losing your self-respect...
...academic subculture does influence academic thought, then it also influences the intellectual climate of our time. In a world which turns ever more often to specialists for official visions of reality, it is of paramount importance to know who these specialists are, and how their special experience may limit their vision of life...
...officer was so crippled that the doctors "won't assure you that he can move around." Said Ike, by his own account: "You send the man and I will send him to battle in a litter because he can do better that way than most people I know." Officer identified subsequently by the White House: Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, who led Eisenhower's VIII Corps in the Battle of the Bulge, is now president of Louisiana State University...
...their own tutees. Instead of a dinner-table tutorial, there is, hopefully, a mixing of interests. "These meetings often last until 9 or 10," Perkins noted. Winthrop is another of the Houses which sponsors regular tutor-student dinners, and Master Owen observed that "Ford would be surprised to know how much of his money goes for sherry...