Results for “Students for a Democratic Society”

…e in college, which was very respectable in those days before grade inflation. They didn’t want me to get A’s because A students became teachers, and they certainly didn’t want me to get C’s, as I had in high school. I could never satisfy them. I went straight from C’s to A’s, al...

…e of Baba’s favorite Indian holy men, Zipruanna, who sat all day, loin clothed naked in a garbage dump, instructing his students and followers about knowing and being nothing. We quantitate deficiencies in formlessness using statistical measures of entropy. They characterize the...

…hat leads people to make lists of things every 3rd-grader should know and allows school boards to create lists of facts students need to be tested on. So, let’s leave that word out of the discussion and see where it gets us. 205 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023951

…werful guests, not so much as hostess or, in tabloid language, harem-like (or as “sex slaves”’), but often as attentive students (that, of course, might be regarded as having its own fetish-like attraction). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022711

…s kept growing. Already there were about fifty Carabayllanos in treatment. Their average age was twenty-nine. They were students, unemployed youths, housewives, street vendors, bus drivers, health workers. The actual numbers seemed small, but those fifty MDR [a form of tuberculos...

… Irv DeVore. His talk was on evolutionary biology and Hamilton’s rule. Both were new to me. Irv was a champion speaker. Students packed his anthropology classes at Harvard. He became a Leakey stalwart and a particularly close friend. I liked his topic. Genes code for traits, an...

…-ins and attempted negotiations, and then, on December 2, the infamous Sproul Hall sit-in. It took twelve hours for 800 students to be arrested by some 600 instructors of a new course called Introductory Police Brutality. These were from the lab notes student took. There was a...

…so, cars have gotten more difficult to fix. This is too bad, because if car mechanics were required instead of physics, students actually might learn science. What do I mean by this? When we hear an outcry about the nation’s need to make children learn science, no one ever asks...

…luding Hoa refugees from Indochina arriving in the late 1970s, Wenzhou immigrants, Dongbei workers, and, more recently, students and affluent Chinese. Wenzhou immigrants are notably apolitical, while Dongbei (northeast) people are closer to PRC traditions. Very few influential Fr...

…oice of words, "separate magisteria"). We lived by the rule of separation between church and state, and for most of the students it raised no issue of cognitive dissonance. In the morning, they thought like rabbis; in the afternoon like scientists; and there was no need to reconc...

…ocus their campaigning on social and economic issues, from the price of housing and cost of living to whether religious students should be drafted into the Israeli military like everyone else. The only Israeli candidate who spoke about the need to reengage the Palestinians in pea...

…ocus their campaigning on social and economic issues, from the price of housing and cost of living to whether religious students should be drafted into the Israeli military like everyone else. The only Israeli candidate who spoke about the need to reengage the Palestinians in pea...

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…But before you could say nonviolent demonstration, the police car was surrounded, its captors reaching as many as 3,000 students. During the late evening, bored fraternity men gathered and tossed lighted cigarettes and eggs on those sitting in the plaza. The demonstrators respon...

…cause what he or she wants to learn about is offered. The trick for the designers of the curricula is to make sure that students’ interest is grabbed and maintained for a full year, while teaching them how to hone their capabilities at the 12 cognitive processes. What are the ob...