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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Perhaps the best example of the group's fund-raising problem occurred when they went to the Ford Foundation for support. Attracted by the project, but suspicious of the group's ability to carry through, Ford offered to put up the entire sum needed, with only one string attached: they would have to see a verified list of speakers before giving money...
This of course, put the group smack in the midst of an inescapable dilemma. To attract speakers from under-developed land, they would have to promise money for transportation, housing, and sometimes also pay honorariums. To receive the money, they would have to acquire ironclad commitments from each of the speakers...
...they want to be. There are several devices we use to accomplish this. For one thing we use what we call 'hero and heroine worship': if someone from the school got into a good college or became a doctor or a lawyer, we tell the kids about it and put his picture in the classroom. Then the kids can say 'see, somebody from our school made it' and they begin to think that maybe they can make...
Defining structure as the model each of us builds of our knowledge, Bruner said, "We put together everything we know in the way that we think the world operates. Then we spin it just a little faster than the world goes and we can make predictions. The purpose of education is to teach a person the techniques of building and using these models...
McCurdy got some supervising early-season performances out of some of his heroes. The coach put Marty Beckwith, The team's top high jumper, in the broad jump, where he could forget about high jumping and his forthcoming match with B.U.'s John Thomas...