Word: patullo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Psychology and Social Relations department looks for a "hot-shot scholar and a hot-shot teacher," Edward L. Patullo, associate chairman of the department said yesterday...
...HOWEVER, Patullo's particular plan would undermine the very quality of independence that is the foundation of vigorous, scholarship and the supposedly unfettered exploration of ideas. It is only through a university's commitment to teaching and to developing people as people, regardless of their particular academic interests or social and economic background, that it can hope to provide any moral leadership for society of to urge people to pursue unexplored avenues of thought...
...Patullo's plan would further reduce Harvard to the status of academic servant to a dehumanized social system, a debilitating position it is already assuming more and more. What Patullo calls Harvard's symbiotic relationship with leading echelons of American society." In fact, describes why American destruction of Indochina, has from the outset, been supervised by Harvard professors...
...vastly increased social and economic importance of scientific discovery" reflects most of all American capitalism's increasingly more explicit reliance on technologists and social scientists to maintain adequate social control. Patullo defends his ideas by evoking, almost quaintly, the image of eager, wide-eyed, value-free scholarship...
Ironically, Patullo recognizes that Universities have more in common with churches than they do with factories. But he is willing to allow universities to forego their traditional moral and intellectually broadening roles for the sake of that greater economics and social rationalization that is narrowing function of the churches to the point of non-existence. Of course, universities "are socially created and serve social purposes," but to serve more slavishly the purpose of a decaying society spiritual impotence and institutional extinction. Harvard's mode of instruction may be outdated; its sexist and elitist values are outdated. The answer...