Word: particularization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Schreiber, in explaining the philosophy behind the Project, often enjoys telling one particular anecdote. "It's a story Sam Levenson sometimes tells. It seems that one day his brother goes up to his father and says 'Dad, I want to go to college.' So the old man stops for a minute and he looks at him and he says 'So who's stopping you.' That's the attitude we'd like the parents of our kids to take. We'd like them to say 'Don't worry about it, son, we'll get yourself through somehow...
...when a kid begins to get a general idea of his vocational plans." Only the top fifty per cent of the students in each school, selected on the basis of I.Q. and reading scores, are admitted to the program. These, organized into separate "Project" classes, then become Schreiber's particular concern...
...sometimes take them on what we call 'Dream Trips' to different colleges. We'll all go up to a school like Harvard, Amherst, or Princeton; we'll walk around the grounds, talk to students, maybe go to a football game. It's not important whether or not a particular kid actually applies and gets into a school like this. What is important is that he think in terms of applying. We want him to feel he's good enough to compete...
...quoted one as saying, "what I wanted out of Harvard was something of a personal growth rather than actually an intellectual achievement, although I have had aspirations toward intellectual achievement, of course." In many cases, what they sought was a model, someone who would motivate them toward becoming a particular kind of person. Whether or not the student did in fact find a man on the faculty to identify with, he generally assumed that this process was a necessary part of finding his own identity. Thus a disappointed student said: "If there was one criticism I have of Harvard...
Coach Floyd Wilson was unwilling to place the blame for the team's poor play on any particular man. He explained the weak offensive performance against M.I.T. by pointing out that his squad was playing against a zone for the first time. And Boston College, the coach noted, "was the best offensive team we've played" and we would have lost "no matter what we had done...