Word: reischauer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard was chosen for the gift partly because Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, is the former U.S. ambassador to Japan, Usami said...
...Reischauer will accept the gift from Nissan in Tokyo later this month...
...Reischauer's intimate knowledge of the pitfalls in relations between Western countries and Japan has convinced him that the situation will become increasingly serious when the developed countries find themselves dealing with a large number of third world countries as equals. For instance, some of the developing countries oppose pollution control, which they consider to be an impediment to economic growth. Solution of the pollution problem will continue to require international cooperation nevertheless. Reischauer comments...
...order to create a "viable world community," Reischauer postulates, it will first be necessary to train world citizens. He advocates, in part, "a basically comparative rather than unilinear approach" to the study of the human experience. A student would learn the characteristics of his own society and culture as well as the responses that other societies have made to the human dilemma in terms of politics, economics, family relations, literature, philosophy, morality, etc. As a result of such a course of study, the student would obtain a less parochial view of the world and an understanding of how societies change...
Professor Reischauer's proposal to train international citizens could have as its by-product the improvement of the educational system as a whole. The act of converting the educational system in the United States to train persons with an international rather than a national consciousness may help to make education more meaningful to the student...