Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Need Standing Committees
...conventional explanation of the school, of course, holds that schools are places where people acquire information that they will need in later life...
WHEN THE SCHOOL is considered as a center for training rather than for information, then the function of grades and exams assumes a new importance. In the conventional view, exams are no more than a technique for insuring that students learn things that they need to know, and grades encourage students to learn these things. But if schools are primarily designed as teaching models of modern economic enterprises, then grades become the hard coin of the scholastic marketplace. Students learn to sell their labor for money by selling their labor for grades. Exactly as in an office or factory...
...need to tell you why I left the radicals--politics is always a consideration of marginal differences, of weighing gains and losses, of technicalities. At least, so I now flatter myself, having then determined not to act. Besides, radical politics on campus have been written to death...
...plead with my heroes to be careful in stating their case. You can't go home again. And there is a need for a place where research and reading and teaching can be done quietly. Culture and Anarchy...