- Title
- Change is not made without inconvenience
- Title
- D.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lecture 1980
- Creator
- Bozzoli, G R
- Subject
- Academic Freedom -- South Africa Social change -- South Africa Education and state -- South Africa Education -- South Africa -- Aims and objectives Education -- Standards -- South Africa Black people -- Education -- South Africa Universities and colleges -- South Africa School integration -- South Africa Discrimination in education -- South Africa
- Date
- 1980
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/259
- Identifier
- vital:19942
- Description
- "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better". I propose to examine a few of these “inconveniences", some of which may turn out not to be inconvenient at all, while others may mean a complete revision of life style, or abandonment of a cherished ideal. In either case, a most vital issue surrounding change is a quantity well known to scientists and engineers, austronauts and motorists, the quantity known as the rate of change, or alternatively, the acceleration or deceleration. Change comes fastest when great pressures or forces are exerted, either revolutionary forces which are aimed at causing events to move rapidly, or oppositely, when the forces of authority are exerted to prevent matters from developing at all. These latter cause a deceleration of the movement of events, but both conditions represent high rates of change with the concomitant dangers that flow from the existence of inertia in the system and the people. Inertia in the accelerating condition results in the movement passing beyond control. Inertia in the decelerating condition entrenches those who are opposed to change and blocks all the natural outlets through which internal pressure could be relieved. Communication demands as a prerequisite, education, so that the essential link in the control chain lies in the schools and universities, and particularly in the universities. If the feedback is to come into play, then the universities must be the places where people learn to process the information. Universities are also the places where real change could originate as history has shown, so that either way, their role is vital. Paradoxically, although universities have, on the face of it, changed vastly over the centuries, and particularly during this half century, yet they have, by and large, retained their democratic character more successfully than any other institution. As 1 see it therefore, the universities should be and could be, very deeply involved in societal change,
- Format
- pdf, 18 leaves
- Publisher
- The Academic Freedom Committee, Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Daantjie Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures, D.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures
- Rights
- Bozzoli, G R
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