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8/20/2019 YATES, Peter. on a Communication From John Dewey
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lated from communication and
exchange of information as the
majority of people were a century
ago. Do we grasp what it signifies
that for ten years we entrusted the
leadership
of
the United Nations to
a man from Burma? No people
today is ignorant of the potentiality
of liberation, however peculiarly
interpreted by government. What
do we mean by " liberation? Is it
liberation to have exchanged our
ritual and song for a passivity of
entertainment?
Today
we are our own censors.
And, almost unwittingly, we resent,
resist and strike against that cen
sorship. Instead of consulting
oracles, we compute polls and
statistics, confusing impersonal
probability
with the requirement of
personal choice. The spokesman of
mankind
today
is
not
an angry
prophet but a dissatisfied student,
breaking
out
in fury and riot in the
name of causes which do not en
gage his attention
for
more than a
few months, outraged by invisible
censors who seem to deny him what
he cannot formulate.
So we reason with students: If you
don't know what to do about
what
bugs you, what plan do you offer?
Confounded by this tautological
non-sequitur the student is momen
tarily quiet. " Don 't disrupt the
administration until you have a
plan." The
academic
mind pre
sumes that learning exists for its
own sake, cut off from need. Not
surprising, when need is inter
preted as numbers of students
slop-
ping through available courses on
the way to a credit rating (degree)
which is supposed to guarantee job,
home, income . . . and what else?
2 4
What is a student expected to
do
with a " liberal art when he has it?
The barbarians who destroy our
culture may be those who have had
every benefit
of
it.
e all have faith that we can some
how communicate. What?
e
all
have faith that, if we can learn the
answers, we will understand the
questions: the examination theory.
e
call on c reativity -u g ly ,
meaningless word In the process
ing of information that we call in-
telligence, answer and question
are inseparable. We share an
historical vision of the whole world,
past, present, and potential.
Though we read the vision
as
a
succession of accidents and fail
ures, denying progress, mankind
has on y during th fast two cen
turies become capable of such a
vision.
We are aware that we inhabit a
globular bit of matter hurtling
through space. We have seen
our
planet in a photograph. Space in
our information of it is not so com
panionable as the heavenly spheres
of Dante. But although we are not
fully
informed about
our
earth and
space, we are not misinformed.
e have begun exploring the im
mense realm of human intelli
gence: how within living bodies we
process, store, recall and by insight
reconceive information. False
theories abound. Everything else
depends on this. We may even
rediscover divinity and the unique
ness of each human spirit.
Almost overnight we have begun
informing one another that we can
not continue fouling and exploiting
the limited resources
of
the world.
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