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this to him.” It's a continuum and it's not measurable.

Q:

Is he also criticising the content of the education now, as well?

Heiskell:

Well, he keeps saying, he keeps talking about value. Values in more of the moral sense rather than in the economic sense. That colleges don't teach values. Well, at Harvard, at least, we make an enormous effort to teach values both through direct teaching of courses in ethics etc., etc..., and by trying to maintain certain standards of behavior, and by trying to get students to participate in the outside world, i.e. to help those who are needy. And about two thirds of the undergraduates actually do do that. I don't know what more you can do in terms of value education. I think what he means is to narrow education down to back to where it was. And I suspect that if pushed, he would say, “Well, we're really talking about fundamental religious values.” But he'll never admit to that because he knows then he's getting into hot water on the other side.

Q:

In what context was he discussed at the Corporation meeting yesterday?

Heiskell:

I think it stemmed from-

Q:

From that article?

Heiskell:

-from that article. But he's been discussed before. He and Derek had a set-to about three months ago at some colloquium at





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