Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might not be astounding that some would prefer that laymen butt out of this area and leave the politicians and think-tank strategists to their numbers game. On Saturday, The Crimson printed an Opinion Page article by Kennedy School research associate Stephen M. Walt, who argues that mass teach-ins foster "oversimplified and ultimately erroneous" conceptions that "may make matters worse" in the struggle for disarmament. His reasoning aptly flaunts the dangers inherent when specialists lose perspective on the task confronting them...
...THIS BRAZENLY POLITICAL APPROACH to the problems of a nuclear age that makes the message of the Nuclear Convocation day vital. Walt, and others who might reject the validity of teach-ins, fail to acknowledge their value as preliminary educational and organizational tools. Consider just a few of the accomplishments achieved here and at other schools: student peace groups received new encouragement and direction for long-term anti-war activism; physicians and scientists strengthened their growing political network, which is designed, in part, to provide specific information on such topics as the infeasibility of coping medically with nuclear...
Students played a major role in first questioning and then opposing American involvement in Vietnam. That movement began with mass teach-ins not unlike this month's event. Then, as now, the individuals who rejected the status quo--despite explanations as to why things could not be otherwise--arrived at the truth before everyone else. Popular opposition will contribute to the necessary goal of ending the arms race...
...have to teach physics to understand it," Purcell said. "Teaching has been a central part of my intellectual life as a scientist," he said, adding that he thought it was a myth that research scientists are poor teachers...
...Those statements do more to galvanize public concern than anything we do in an organized way," said U.C.S. Coordinator David Brunell, who helped plan the teach-ins. Hart says that the U.S. must regain the peace initiative by showing a greater willingness to negotiate arms agreements with the Soviets. As he said at Cornell: "The U.S. must go back to the bargaining table and offer a challenge to the Soviets to reduce nuclear weapons. If not, we entrust our survival to leaders who believe that a limited nuclear war can be fought and won, and who might act on that...