Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glassman, however, has directed his criticism primarily toward other questions. He is nostalgic for the less complex university of a by one era in which crucial contributions to knowledge could be made by isolated individuals with simple tools. He views with alarm the more extensive research programs now underway and fears that they have somehow been packaged for "sale" to the government. He suggests that federally supported research programs are not guests for knowledge, or that their results are less desirable and fundamental than other findings. He suspects that even though these research programs are not classified, their subjects have...
...believe it is important to allay some of these fears and correct some of these misapprehensions about research and teaching in the natural sciences. Almost invariably, research contracts and grants at this university originate with a professor or group of scholars who believe their project will lead to new and fundamental knowledge. Ordinarily their proposal is reviewed by scientists at other universities who are asked to judge it only on the basis of its scholarly merit. If the university has projects serving other ends, initiated directly or indirectly by its administration or the government, we have yet to learn about...
Because most scientific research of fundamental significance promises no predictable economic reward, substantial industrial support for this research cannot be anticipated. Because experimental techniques have become extremely sophisticated and expensive, science needs a wealthy sponsor. In practice, only public funds can adequately support modern scientific research...
Both the university and the outside world gain from this arrangement. Research benefits from an academic environment in which problems can be freely chosen, methods widely discussed, and conclusions subjected to disinterested scrutiny. Instruction, at all levels, benefits from the newly acquired knowledge and from the flexible, resourceful, and openminded attitudes demanded by research. The best undergraduate courses are usually taught by the most creative and productive scientists; the best graduate training occurs in close collaboration with these scientists...
...government withdrew its support a large fraction of the experimental research activities at this university would stop. Alternative support is simply unavailable. After the research activities had stopped, instruction would stagnate and degenerate. In the sciences, the university would be reduced to a college with a glorious past...