Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare of any modern nation depends on its science and technology. U.S. industry, national defense, even health, rely on progress in fields such as geology, physics and genetics. Science implies scientists, who must be accurately taught. In schools and colleges, there can be no contamination of the teaching of science by irrelevant philosophies or prejudices, no matter how time honored these...
Surely Mr. Berger must be aware that the histories of these countries, as well as their politico-economic systems, may have something to do with their poor performance. SONG is by no means arguing that there is only one factor that is responsible for technological progress. SONG's credo is simply that at this time in our history, American anti-intellectualism is a barrier to the advancement of our society in general and to educational reform in particular...
...days later, a 37-member provisional government threw out some of the most odious of Ceausescu's laws. It abolished the Securitate and canceled the so-called systematization in the countryside, under which thousands of villages were to be destroyed in the name of progress and peasants forced to move into high-rise apartment complexes. It legalized abortion, which had been prohibited by Ceausescu in an effort to increase the labor force in a country that now has a population of 23 million. It ended food rationing, provided enough power to allow citizens to turn up the heat in their...
...society so believing in ideals allow the reality of infant mortality to progress...
Whether attitudes like Olson's diminish American competitiveness is unproven. But taken to its extreme, anti-intellectualism demonstrably impedes technological progress. During the Cultural Revolution, for example, when professors were ridiculed and universities were shut, China suffered a "lost generation" of technical experts and academicians, a loss it is still trying to make...