Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secondly, it is correct, as the editorial states, that we do object to grading because of the particular socio-economic implications, of the grading system. However, and in addition, our objections derive more directly from a concern for the quality of educational activity fostered by grading...
...exchange for labor power. In the workplace, the need to substitute external incentives for intrinsic interest arises because of the separation of the workers from control over the production process and its products. Grades play a important role in preparing young people for this kind of work environment. We object to both a economic system and an educational system which operate in this manner...
...short-run payoff, the student tends to minimize risk by restricting his field of inquiry. As a result, the larger framework and context of his studies is taken for grated. Thus grades play a significant role in the perpetuation of the status quo in social inquiry. To this we object...
...Shamshak, the Atma has become an object of extreme personal devotion. "It's something more than ego thing," he said, "the Atma has been my whole life for the last two years." And those two years have been anything but easy; the Atma has seen none of the instant success of such projects as Boston After Dark. The choice of the South End site had been a result of something more than pecuniary considerations. Samshak had grown up in the Castle Square area and had "kind of an emotional link" to the neighborhood...
...many people brought up in this atmosphere any exercise of power, even that of a doctor over a patient or a teacher over a pupil, creates a feeling of discomfort. To those who are strongly sensitized to this issue the hierarchy structure of a university faculty is an object at once of suspicion and resentment. One of our students declared himself unable to think of Harvard as a community of scholars and students. "It is a hierarchy," he said, "and this is the source of our graduate student problems. I feel that...