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Regarding the appointment of Jack Greenberg to teach minority issues at Harvard, we are not protesting Greenberg's race [Aug. 23]. Black students and others are lobbying for desegregation of the virtually all-white faculty at Harvard Law. At issue is the rectitude of affirmative action as a remedy for racially exclusive hiring patterns. If Harvard and its defenders can convince the American people that affirmative action equals anti-white racism, then every affirmative action policy at any school or workplace is in jeopardy. If this issue has "no validity" to Jack Greenberg, what must be questioned...
...Moral Fiction (1978) he argued fiercely for positive, inspiring writing and charged that, by contrast, "almost all modern art is tinny, commercial and immoral." Head of the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Binghamton, he once said, "If I don't teach and get my point of view across to younger writers, I will burn in hell for a thousand years...
...Confessions, "whatsoever I speak or write, or read, or number, let all serve Thee"). In a secular age, the moral purpose of education takes secular forms: racial integration, sex education, good citizenship. At the college level, the ambiguities become more complex. Should a morally objectionable person be allowed to teach? (Not Timothy Leary, said Harvard.) Should a morally objectionable doctrine be permitted? (Not Arthur Jensen's claims of racial differences in intelligence, said student protesters at Berkeley...
...overwhelming influence on U.S. education has been not politics but economics: the need for a technologically trained managerial caste. The very first Land Grant Act, in 1862, handed out 30,000 acres per Congressman for the building of state colleges at which "the leading object shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." These needs keep changing, of course, and over the decades the U.S. economy demanded of its universities not only chemists and engineers but lawyers and accountants and personnel analysts, and then, after Sputnik's shocking revelation...
...contemporary sense of desperation about coping with the knowledge explosion helped inspire a complete reorganization-yet again-of Harvard's curriculum. At the end of World War II, Harvard had curtailed Eliot's electives and launched a senes of general education courses that were supposed to teach everyone the rudiments of science and the humanities. But by the 1960s, when rebellious students seized an administration building, that whole system had broken down. "At the moment," a saddened Dean Rosovsky later wrote to his colleagues, "to be an educated man or woman doesn't mean anything ... The world...