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...controlling elites in all underdeveloped countries share "arrogance and a faith in logic and order per se," White continued. They believe the human mind can solve anything, and it is therefore difficult to explain to them the allowances which Western society makes for errors and for mercy. Their logic "requires a discipline which controls all the way down to the grassroots...
...final analysis, the argument for American and African unity rests on the undemonstrable--and perhaps slightly paranoid--act of pure faith which asserts a priori that whites and Negroes per se cannot understand one another nor collaborate in an atmosphere of equality and mutual respect. One thing is certain: the surest way to prevent equality is to convince everyone of such a thesis. Paranoid presuppositions rapidly become self-fulfilling prophecies. The ideal of equality is not refuted, it is merely rendered historically impossible by ideologies which generate racial distrust...
...about $60 a month, plus room and board and social security benefits, a housewife can hire an inexperienced Spanish girl who speaks no French at all. This language barrier is playing hob with Parisian social life. Many a telephoned invitation gets no farther than "Madame no está. No se. Tarde, tarde." CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish...
...Sibley Commission succeeded in changing public opinion, said Galphin, because it posed the question as a choice between open or closed schools instead of segregation or integration. No one favored closed schools, Galphin said, although many failed to understand the question and responded by flatly declaring, "I'se for segregation...
...cannot recall even a single lecture in which dramatic value was achieved to an appreciable degree. And even if an oral lecture should have great dramatic value, this would not necessarily outweigh the values achieved by alternative procedures. Furthermore, I question the assumption that arousing enthusiasm in students, per se, really is a value. For if the student becomes enthusiastic simply by imitating the instructor, this does nothing to train him to reason his own way toward an understanding of the importance of the material...