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...book, Religion, Politics and the Higher Learning, Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, emphasizes the differences between inculcating any type of belief and discussing religion in the same critical spirit with which philosophy is taught. White claims that teaching religion in any meaningful manner involves teaching a particular religion. Since the non-sectarian college is not prepared to do this, he argues that it must confine its instruction to teaching about religion, which "no more constitutes teaching people to be religious...than teaching about Communism amounts to propagating...
...Professor Demos also approves of courses about religion, but he replies that students are not merely taught about democracy. "Don't we teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination? Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to overlook the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...
...Whereas professors like Morton White and Buttrick emphasize the difference between teaching religion and teaching about it, Paul Tillich, University Professor, sees an essential spiritual unity in all attempts at scholarship. In a disquisition last November to the Overseers on "Religion in the Intellectual Life of the University," Tillich concluded: "In many realms of the scholarly work of a university the religious dimension is revealed, independent of a concrete religious tradition." For Tillich, "the religious question is the question of human existence generally...
...faith, which rests on assumptions as unprovable as any other faith. Knowledge through scholarship is justified and constant questioning become the chief paths to this summum bonum. There are of course all the institutional trappings of a visible church; the hierophantic gamut running from teaching fellow to full professor; the sacraments of grades and commencement, the semi-monastic existence of acolyte graduate students, and ordained faculty...
...example of this type of work-shop is that of Donald Menzel, professor of Astronomy, who will "supervise a research project on the growth and behavior of sunspots." Members of this technical team of about eight freshmen must have "a real interest in this field and be qualified to participate effectively as a member of a research team--either as an astronomer or as a physicist, mathematician, or writer." As an added requirement members of the workshop are expected to enroll in Astronomy 1, as well as to audit courses in related fields...