Word: respect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching research and scholarship. They must be characterized by reasoned discourse, intellectual honesty, mutual respect, and openness to constructive change. By accepting membership in this community, an individual neither surrenders his right nor escapes his fundamental responsibilities as a citizen, but acquires additional rights as well as responsibilities to the whole University community. They do not require him to be silent and passive. But they do require him to see how easily an academic community can be violated, knowingly or unknowingly--whether by actual violence of by lack of responsiveness to widely...
...opinions. They also have the right to press by appropriate means for action on any matter on which they believe that the University can and should act, and they have the right to be given a full and fair hearing and prompt response. To be appropriate the means must respect both the need to preserve the essential commitment of the University and the right of individual or collective expression of opinion or dissent. We have taken and will continue to take measures aimed both at dealing with issues and grievances raised by members of the community and at improving...
Americans still readily invoke the conventional catalogue of moral precepts: 93% rate the Golden Rule as very important, and a large majority say that they turn to it for guidance when confronted with a moral dilemma. The statement that "nothing is more important than family love and respect" draws the approval of 90%, and "hard work pays off" has the assent of 79%. Similarly, 77% say that they turn for moral guidance to the values their parents taught them, and 73% look to "the religious rules I was raised...
...more U.S. aid without strings, assured markets and better prices for their exports to the U.S. They want more control over their own resources and over the policies and profits of large U.S. companies that operate in Latin America. Ecuador, in addition, had a specific request: that the U.S. respect its claim to 200 miles of territorial water offshore until Ecuadoreans develop the equipment and know-how to exploit their rich fishing areas themselves...
...thousand Harvard students: "Professors are hired for their research achievements, not their teaching ability. Almost the only educational technique employed by senior faculty members is the lecture, involving no communication or concern. Grades are awarded for effective mimicry. The university seems not to care for the self-understanding, self-respect or independent thought of its students...