Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps small children should study history by reading old children's books. Argument: the purpose of history is to give enlightenment through acquisition of the "historical sense." For this purpose, the past must be made real. Find snatches of the past to which children can relate most intensely.
Through such replicas, a student might experience for several years a natural, unexpurgated recreation of a past bibliographic environment. It is important that the library contain many more books than the student could have time to read. The message of this medium is that potential experience is richer than any...
A library of 1850 helps one to understand that epoch in its own terms, as a past present facing an unknown future, rather than through hindsight, as past with known future. Where hindsight finds foolishness, empathy will enable the student to learn how hard it was to avoid foolishness.
I will account such schools a success if and only if they also possess a competitive advantage over normal ones. In other words, if among their graduates are individuals who succeed better in public life as well as private, like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or like a twenty-three year old...
"The frontiers in sociology." Vogel said, "now seem to be in the consideration of social problems and public policy." Sociologists want more intellectual contacts with economists, political scientists, and historians, butthe present interdisciplinary organization inhibits such arrangements. Meanwhile, psychologists and anthropologists in the Soc Rel department have been able to...