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The comradeship of the young both sustains them in their own image of themselves and gives them the emotional sustenance they need for the independence of their lives.
They live apart from us. they hold themselves back, and from the untouchable center of their personal lives they look distantly at our existence and our knowledge as items possessed by beings on a different planet. They are not what they seem to the professor who merely looks at the faces before him. He cannot be certain even of then attention, since they have learned how to occupy a classroom and look attentive while they take their minds elsewhere. He cannot be sine of then respect, since they have learned how to be quiet and how to act respectfully. The silence of the present generation has been many ways deceptive, and it is false to assume that the silence has meant either consent or lack of creative and critical thought.
The students must be asked to determine for themselves which books are great, which ideas are viable, which values are compelling. To do otherwise is to use the familiar brand name approach as a form of intellectual propaganda. It is to take the young through an educational tour of the museums of literature, to inspire a dutiful pious attitude to authors other than an attitude of expectancy and involvement.
Read the following passage and answer questions
The comradeship of the young both sustains them in their own image of themselves and gives them the emotional sustenance they need for the independence of their lives.
They live apart from us. they hold themselves back, and from the untouchable center of their personal lives they look distantly at our existence and our knowledge as items possessed by beings on a different planet. They are not what they seem to the professor who merely looks at the faces before him. He cannot be certain even of then attention, since they have learned how to occupy a classroom and look attentive while they take their minds elsewhere. He cannot be sine of then respect, since they have learned how to be quiet and how to act respectfully. The silence of the present generation has been many ways deceptive, and it is false to assume that the silence has meant either consent or lack of creative and critical thought.
The students must be asked to determine for themselves which books are great, which ideas are viable, which values are compelling. To do otherwise is to use the familiar brand name approach as a form of intellectual propaganda. It is to take the young through an educational tour of the museums of literature, to inspire a dutiful pious attitude to authors other than an attitude of expectancy and involvement.
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