Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is a time-honored and effective method of protest. However, when protesters cross the line between peaceful demonstration and forcible coercion, even when the crossing is not pre-meditated, they only serve as a detriment to their cause-and to the rights of the entire community...
...started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum taught in part by the Socratic method. Adler's prescription for such sustained productivity: "I take almost no exercise, and I work harder every year than the year before...
...individual's existence and in the abstract sense of collective man's experience. He juxtaposes the crude material with the sophisticated abstract. He jumps from talking of a "posting inspection," during which "they made us piss into beer-mugs" and "strip to the buff," to nothing that "the method of Heidegger and such as may come after him is basically the same as that of Descartes." But for all his occasional snobisme, he returns to a realization of the common bond of humanity:" ...humanity must perforce be the historical totality of the men who have lived, are living and will...
...life have great educational value. At present, most instruction in our universities is far too passive. Professors rely excessively on the lecture. Seminars are often consumed by dull recitations of student work. Discussion groups are typically led by graduate students who lack experience in teaching, especially by the discussion method. Granted, students are challenged to think for themselves in preparing for exams and writing papers. But all too often, exam grades come back with little or no explanation while term papers return with only a few hastily scribbled comments...
...that was left captainless by the assassination of the late sixties. But what has happened to those of the old guard who were fortunate enough to survive the turbulence that claimed Martin Luthur King and Malcolm X? How have the two decades since those slayings changed their views and method? And what can Jackson-and anyone else seriously interested in the Black movement-learn from the "founding fathers" of modern Black activism...