Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of education can move this ascetic, unflappable man to evangelistic fervor. "The idea of individual fulfillment within a framework of moral purpose," he says, "must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession." What rankles him is the fact that so few educators seem to share his concern. Only a fraction of 1% of all the billions spent on education goes to research. In many American schools, says a former HEW education official, the prevailing attitudes are "inflexibility, defensiveness and insularity," making them "fortresses against the community" rather than fertile forces within it. Adding...
...Share It? Reagan argued that tuition made educational as well as financial sense. At a press conference, he hinted that students might appreciate their schooling more if they had to pay for at least part of it. "There's nothing wrong with young people beginning to have a responsibility to the cost of their education," he said. Moreover, he argued, "there is no such thing as free education. There is costly education, and the question is how you share the cost and who pays for the cost...
Until recently, this was largely the fault of the School Committee. With the committee's approval, Exodus could have applied for a share of the large amount of Federal money available for educational "demonstration projects." But the committee, though it gave such approval to a program for busing Negro children to suburban schools, wasn't willing to give it to Exodus...
Students -- even those who refused to go along with the boycott of classes -- are demanding greater participation in the affairs of the university and want to share in at least some of the actual decision-making. The national press may have given more attention to the mass sit-ins, the abortive Filthy Speech Movement, and the famed nude parties in Berkeley, but the real issue on the campus is student (not non-student) power...
Heyns admits that non-students at Berkeley are really not solely responsible for the agitation there, as California newspapers claim and Californians believe. "Unfortunately, they are aided and abetted by some of our own students who share this hostility toward the university," Heyns explains. "It is apparent that we have lost some of the ground we had gained in our efforts over the past two years to build a genuine campus community. I understand that there were some weaknesses in the Campus Rules Committee, but I think this joint commission can discuss all the reasons for this development...