Word: scientiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "We honor you today as an eminent classical scholar, neither intimidated nor discouraged by the present glamour of the scientist . . . and as one who has come to understand and to live the meaning of the words 'and gladly teach...
...social institutions have grown to gigantic size, with consequences which the authors of the Constitution could not even imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...
...student who concentrates in a science is preoccupied with his specialty to such a degree that he fails to achieve a view of science as a whole and of the interrelationship of the special fields within it. A general education in science needs to be provided for the future scientist or technologist as well as for the general student. One could scarcely insist that all students of history or literature should learn some biology, for example, but that the prospective physicist or chemist need...
...critical tests of a successful general education program is that of an adequate course in the natural sciences. The difficulties appear to lie partly in the attitude of many scientists, who have been unable to interest themselves in the problem of teaching their subject to the non-scientist...
...this problem could not be overcomes planners would face the question of whether they wanted to increase twelve) scientist's separation from the college life of his fellows...