Word: wells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what is the message of an education in which one begins with general textbooks (to get the whole picture), proceeds to more specific ones, and concludes by a carefully supervised examination of primary sources? Answer: control, hierarchy, no surprises. That life is governed by general principles, which are already well understood and need only to be applied. That contemporary knowledge is superior to past knowledge...
...that "the essence of education is civil defense against media fall-out." College students might acquire defense against text books by spending a few months re-examining their own high school texts while reading the high school text books of ten, twenty, fifty and a hundred years ago, as well as the high school text books of French, East German, Egyptian, Indian and other school systems. They might also read ads and brochures of text book publishers. More than any explicit lesson. this would enable them to understand what textbooks are really about...
...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 hippie drop-out reported by Life to be making millions in stock market. These men succeed through insight; they undermine the view that success is built on conformity. Education should make people happier by giving those so inclined the strength to conquer...
...Vietnam. We urge you to contribute at least the cost of your meal to the work of the American Friends Service Committee in the Amputee Ward and Prosthetic Unit at the hospital in Quang Ngai and to their Day Care Center for refugee children in that city, as well as for the medical supplies and surgical equipment they sent to the NLF and North Vietnam. Over 1500 Radcliffe and Harvard students have already committed themselves to a thirty-hour fast beginning on Friday and have arranged for the cost of their meals to be given to the AFSC...
...IDEA of having a documentary about Henry Miller may seem questionable considering he is alive and well in California. Every day the media seize upon living people and events and records, classify and bury them relegating them to a fossilized past...