Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...illusion, then it will follow that the quest for efficiency is inimical to learning. Knowledge is essentially subjective: it cannot exist independently of the learner's (or knower's) perception. And it is in variably altered by that perception. Knowledge, in other words, is at best informed opinion. To pretend that learning is an efficient process of assimilating an external body of known truths, is to ignore the basic personal and moral aspects of learning and knowing...
Most people would agree that under normal circumstances it would be undesirable for the Faculty, as a body of scholars gathered for the purpose of teaching, to express its opinion on political matters which have no direct relation to its academic functions. But these are not normal circumstances, and normal procedures and inhibitions are not appropriate...
...According to Mahoney the "opinion referendum" would give the people of Cambridge a chance to voice their opinion on rent control without running into the legal blockade met by a binding referendum...
Paul M. Doty. Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, was listed on Friday as one of seven sponsors of a "Committee for the Expression of Faculty Opinion." The committee, led by Robert Dorfman, professor of Economics, issued a statement saying that the Faculty should vote on the war resolution at an informal, "convocation." and not at the regular Faculty meeting...
...wish to participate in such a vote to do so and I agreed. Since then, however, I have had no contact with such a group or any of its members. Consequently, I was surprised to learn that a document proposing a faculty committee on the expression of political opinion and bearing my name was being discussed and published in part in the CRIMSON. Any attempt to institutionalize political discussion in the faculty seems to me unwise and uncalled...