Word: relationship
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Grades, argues the petition, create an authoritarian relationship between teacher and student which is designed to prepare the student to accept such relationships on the job in later life. Grades teach the student to separate the "value" of his work from the pleasure or displeasure that it may have given him, thus ensuring that he will fit smoothly into an economic system which demands that workers respond predictably to purely economic incentives. And grades instill in the student that respect for individual achievement and corresponding disdain for group effort and cooperation which are essential to the functioning of a capitalist...
...discussions at M.I.T. some scientists, especially here at Harvard, have balked at the words "protest" and "strike." They prefer to look at today as a sort of religious holiday, a time for men whose particular brand of mythology happens to be science to pause and calmly review the overall relationship of science and society. The particular proposals raised by some M.I.T. scientists have also failed to excite Harvard's scientific community since most of them concern classified research on campus--an issue relevant to M.I.T. but not to Harvard, which has already banned such research...
...most pressing of these issues concerns the relationship of federal highways to mass transportation systems and what should be the federal role in financing the two. Last month Rep. John Bingham (D-N.Y.) introduced in the House a bill to help finance mass transportation with money which now goes to highways. Highway construction money comes out of a special trust fund which was set up only after the most intricate and laborious legislative maneuverings. Bingham's bill proposes to use money from this highway trust fund for mass transportation needs, such as building and improving subway systems. Bingham...
...headline "Four Professors Cancel Lectures in Protest of 'Misuse of Science,'" you reported on 28 February that I am one of "four Harvard scientists who have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4," and would replace the "regular technical material next Tuesday with discussions of the relationship of science to society...
...always has had a component of discussions concerning the relationship of science to society. As part of this activity, I have asked the class some weeks ago to study selected factors involved in the March 4 research stoppage at M.I.T., and to write a short background paper on some concrete aspect of this topic, based on reading chosen from an extensive reading list. This paper is due March...