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...abolition of grades would nevertheless have a number of very beneficial effects. The first is that it would greatly facilitate learning. It seems reasonable to expect that students would learn a great deal more if they were able to pursue their own intellectual interests within a rational academic framework. Of course, the kind of studying that now precedes examinations would be a thing of the past, but it is unlikely that students learn very much by cramming, and it is certain that this kind of studying can only atrophy a student's capacity for thought...
...last Thursday's Faculty meeting, Rosovsky said that "increased student consultation and participation is entirely possible within the framework designed by us." But in light of Tuesday's vote, he said, "obviously many of my colleagues hold a very different opinion...
With respect to the framework of the University, including the role of the governing boards, we recognize that the increase in numbers of students and faculty in recent years, together with the increase in interdisciplinary relationships among the several faculties and deeper involvement with the world outside the University, have resulted in making inadequate the present channels of communication between members of the whole University community and the governing boards...
...have in the tradition of this nation a well-tested framework of values. Our problem is not to find better values, but rather to be faithful to those we profess-and to make those values live in our institutions, which we have yet to do. If we believe in individual dignity and responsibility, for example, we must do the necessary, sometimes expensive, often complicated things that will make it possible for each person to have a decent job if he wants...
...there any way to avoid the beehive model? Perhaps. We must ask the individual to accept certain kinds of responsibility, and we must create the institutional framework in which individual responsibility is feasible. Traditionally, we have spent enormous energy exhorting the individual to act responsibly, and very little energy designing the kind of society in which he can act responsibly...