I well recall a conversation I had with a Dr. Center in Savannah,* Georgia, in 1949. It well expresses the arrogance and complete contempt for law and order of the psychiatrist. A man had just called to inquire after his wife who was “under treatment” in Center’s hospital. Center asked him, “Do you have the money...? That’s right, thirty thousand...well you better get it or I’ll have to send your dear wife to the state institution and you know what will happen then!” I was there doing work on … [Read more...] about Article: Today’s Terrorism (n.d.)
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Lecture: A Review of Study (1964)
Now, if you know education - and you know our technology of education now - you will see at once exactly what must have happened. Way back here in kindergarten or someplace the Communist love of the reevaluation of words caught him. The favorite trick of the Communist is not to change anybody’s vocabulary but to make it mean something else. They change the meaning of words so therefore everything sounds familiar. The next thing you know a person finds that the word means something else entirely … [Read more...] about Lecture: A Review of Study (1964)
Lecture: Reviewing Students’ Ability to Process (1953)
I recommend to you a story called "One Was Stubborn," I wrote one time many, many, many years ago, 1939, in a society where everybody had everything done for them. This was intensely unpopular, this story. It was intensely unpopular with the editor. He really writhed over it, but he had a hole in the magazine created by a shortage, by namely me, and so he bought it and he published it. And this -- this story, this story, of course, is the kid of all science fiction. Naturally, everything is … [Read more...] about Lecture: Reviewing Students’ Ability to Process (1953)