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Openness & Objection. The opinion survey, most thorough probing ever done of public attitudes toward the schools, was made for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, which has just launched an Institute for Development of Educational Activities (IDEA) with a $1,200,000 grant aimed at getting ideas out of research libraries...
The objection to this reasoning, Nhat Hanh observed, is that the Viet Cong would win by default. But "this is a psychological war and not a military one," Nhat Hanh emphasized, and if the Viet Cong continued to press their attacks they would find themselves deserted by the war-weary...
*First, some claim that the present students are better students than those who would replace them, and thus that the national interest would be impaired by wiping out the special interest of the academic incumbents. This objection has little, though some, merit. Money is not the sole criterion dividing students...
*Second, some argue that abolition of the 2-S would make education difficult for anybody; without the deferment, the whole learning process would lie under a pall of uncertainty, for no student could be sure of his future. This objection overlooks many things. The present system, with its welter of...
Deferments and exemptions untainted by class-privilege should also be maintained, and some extended: physical and mental disability, family dependency, conscientious objection. Some occupations and types of training may still merit deferments or exemptions in the national interest, but the criteria of national interest should be very carefully and conservatively...