→ avonasac0800:你們來大學到底是要念書還是搞鬥爭的..03/19 14:07
我無意引戰啦，但是這位同學提出的問題我們大概也很多人都感到疑惑吧？
我是沒讀過很多書，但是這篇「休倫港宣言」的其中一句話讓我感觸蠻深的，節錄自其中
「The university and social change」這段，只是做個參考，大家都是理性的鄉民，一
定可以自己做判斷的。
文章有點長，我有把想強調的字眼上色：）
First, the university is located in a permanent position of social influence.
It's educational function makes it indispensable and automatically makes it a
crucial institution in the formation of social attitudes. Second, in an
unbelievably complicated world, it is the central institution for organizing,
evaluating and transmitting knowledge. Third, the extent to which academic
resources presently are used to buttress immoral social practice is revealed,
first, by the extent to which defense contracts make the universities
engineers of the arms race. Too, the use of modern social science as a
manipulative tool reveals itself in the "human relations" consultants to the
modern corporations, who introduce trivial sops to give laborers feelings of
"participation" or "belonging," while actually deluding them in order to
further exploit their labor. And, of course, the use of motivational research
is already infamous as a manipulative aspect of American politics. But these
social uses of the universities' resources also demonstrate the unchangeable
reliance by men of power on the men and storehouses of knowledge: this makes
the university functionally tied to society in new ways, revealing new
potentialities, new levers for change. Fourth, the university is the only
mainstream institution that is open to participation by individuals of nearly
any viewpoint.
These, at least, are facts, no matter how dull the teaching, how
paternalistic the rules, how irrelevant the research that goes on. Social
relevance, the accessibility to knowledge, and internal openness--these
together make the university a potential base and agency in a movement of
social change.
Any new left in America must be, in large measure, a left with real
intellectual skills, committed to deliberativeness, honesty, reflection as
working tools. The university permits the political life to be an adjunct to
the academic one, and action to be informed by reason.
A new left must be distributed in significant social roles throughout the
country. The universities are distributed in such a manner.
A new left must consist of younger people who matured in the postwar world,
and partially be directed to the recruitment of younger people. The
university is an obvious beginning point.
A new left must include liberals and socialists, the former for their
relevance, the latter for their sense of thoroughgoing reforms in the system.
The university is a more sensible place than a political party for these two
traditions to begin to discuss their differences and look for political
synthesis.
A new left must start controversy across the land, if national policies and
national apathy are to be reversed. The ideal university is a community of
controversy, within itself and in its effects on communities beyond.
A new left must transform modern complexity into issues that can be
understood and felt close up by every human being. It must give form to the
feelings of helplessness and indifference, so that people may see the
political, social, and economic sources of their private troubles, and
organize to change society. In a time of supposed prosperity, moral
complacency, and political manipulation, a new left cannot rely on only
aching stomachs to be the engine force of social reform. The case for change,
for alternatives that will involve uncomfortable personal efforts, must be
argued as never before. The university is a relevant place for all of these
activities.
But we need not indulge in illusions: the university system cannot complete a
movement of ordinary people making demands for a better life. From its
schools and colleges across the nation, a militant left might awaken its
allies, and by beginning the process towards peace, civil rights, and labor
struggles, reinsert theory and idealism where too often reign confusion and
political barter. The power of students and faculty united is not only
potential; it has shown its actuality in the South, and in the reform
movements of the North.
The bridge to political power, though, will be build through genuine
cooperation, locally, nationally, and internationally, between a new left of
young people and an awakening community of allies. In each community we must
look within the university and act with confidence that we can be powerful,
but we must look outwards to the less exotic but more lasting struggles for
justice.
To turn these mythic possibilities into realities will involve national
efforts at university reform by an alliance of students and faculty. They
must wrest control of the educational process from the administrative
bureaucracy. They must make fraternal and functional contact with allies in
labor, civil rights, and other liberal forces outside the campus. They must
import major public issues into the curriculum--research and teaching on
problems of war and peace is an outstanding example. They must make debate
and controversy, not dull pedantic cant, the common style for educational
life. They must consciously build a base for their assault upon the loci of
power.
As students for a democratic society, we are committed to stimulating this
kind of social movement, this kind of vision and program in campus and
community across the country. If we appear to seek the unattainable, as it
has been said, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SDS_Port_Huron.html
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