Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even if Yale alumni held exactly Buckley's views, they still would most likely balk at his formula for teaching these views. Buckley says "Truth will not of itself dispel error; therefore truth must be championed and promulgated on every level and at every opportunity." He proposes to do this by splitting education into teaching and research: Teaching teaches what is Right; research finds out what is Right. Teachers who teach Wrong get fired. Buckley does not want research fettered. It is only in the classroom that the teacher should be limited to teaching what Buckley and others think...
...activities as a teacher, thereby insuring himself license in the laboratory, which is right and proper, and license in the classroom, which is wrong and improper." Defending the rights of the majority, and assuming that Yale graduates are predominantly Christians and capitalists. Buckley further maintains that Yale must teach the ideologies and value judgements of its alumni. "The responsibility to govern Yale falls ultimately on the shoulders of her alumni...
Many other critics agreed that Buckley's theory of education is inconsistent. While he proposes that the alumni govern what professors teach, he insists that "a student (would) remain the final arbiter under the system I propose. Under no circumstances should he be shielded from the thought and writings of men with different values; but the professor should do his earnest and intellectual best to expose the shortcomings and fallacies of such value judgements...
...speech Father Feeney had been bothered by the noise from a loudspeaker a few hundred yards down on the Common which blared out a hellfire revival sermon. That and the heckling finally seemed to break him down. His voice cracked as he yelled, "I get up here to teach the true faith and I get called every dirty rotten filthy name that your foul minds can think of. People try to disturb me. they come down here and call me Mr. Feeney"--then someone shouted from the crowd, "Even that's too good for you." Feeney yelped back, "That...
...courses, and 100 college graduates from all over the country have come to take them. There are courses in Islamic law and Hindu thought, in the Urdu, Pali and Bengali languages-everything from "Vedanta and Its Interpretations" to "Systems of Atmavidya." The whole idea, says Gainsborough, is to teach more than just politics and economics. "Nobody can understand Asia," says he, "without realizing that the spiritual life dominates everything...