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...what he calls the crucial link in education--"highly gifted, strongly motivated teachers"--Adler points up exactly the stumbling block on which previous reform efforts have tumbled. Unfortunately, his scenario is so far in the clouds that it loses all relevance to education's current state. Notes sociologist David Riesman '31, who has taken exception publicly to Paideia's generally positive reception: "Hitching your wagon to a star is one thing, but if the wagon is mired in the mud and the star looks too remote, no one will make the effort to move...
Travelling in Virginia that week, Ford Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences David Riesman '31 visited Mary Baldwin College, a women's school, where "the students were telephoning their fathers on nearby Air Force and Army bases, asking if they should go home." These undergraduates feared that their particular country would be targeted by the Soviets because Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a vehement anti-communist spokesman, had once attended an adjacent military academy, Riesman explains...
Sennett walked off the stage, leaving his musical career in ruins behind him. He fled to Harvard, began graduate studies under Sociologist David Riesman and so, in his words, "sort of wandered into doing sociology." He started teaching at Brandeis, at Cambridge, at Harvard, at N.Y.U...
...Harvard is number one on the academic hit parade in a way that it never was before. Riesman adds As a result, "there has been a growing sense of Harvard in the nation's service that has added to the attractiveness of the ceremony," he adds...
...Riesman recalls that "day of seige" as an "ugly" one, marked by what he terms a "generational war." The students "were in support of the protestors, while the alumni definitely were not." He adds that one of the "most effective" Commencement day protests that he has witnessed occurred in 1969, when more than 60 percent of the graduates wore arm bands symbolizing their desire for Harvard to adopt a policy of equal admissions for men and women...