Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AWARENESS has been smoldering for several years: that there is something very wrong with the teaching process at Harvard and, particularly, that an experience which ought to be ecstatic has been rendered sterile. Exploration in reforms of the teaching process had had tentative beginnings in February and March, in the form of the Free University of Cambridge, the Conspiracy Against Harvard Education, and any number of other informal groups. The Strike gave these explorations a powerful added impetus...
...emerging sense that if classes are small enough so that teacher and learners could be empathetically aware of each other, and if a habit of awareness of the process of teaching and learning was maintained, then the learning situation could evolve under and umbrella of mutual trust...
...also feel that the present governmental structure at Harvard should be changed to include students in the decision-making process in a direct, structural way and not in mere advisory capacities...
...want to "wreck this slow, inefficient democratic system." It took the human race centuries of thought and pain and suffering and hard experiment to devise it. Democracy is not a "state" but a process; it is a way of solving human problems, a way of hobbling power, a way of protecting every minority from the awful, fatal tyranny of either the few of the many...
...further physical expansion of Harvard take place until the views of the surrounding community are represented in the decision-making process...