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Wednesday, March 31. 1976
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Indian says American education lacking as process of knowledge
By JULIE WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Education in the Western world is a process of homogenization that obliterates everything that makes a human being a human being. Vine Deloria Jr. said last night while speaking on the future of American Indians through higher education.
Deloria, an attorney and author who has written on American Indian legal and cultural history, addressed students and area residents as the first of a series of speakers in the Minority Affairs Cultural Enrichment Program.
He said he saw contemporary education not as a learning process but as a process of smoothing out the rough edges of any problem. He said differences from the American mainstream
"Education is a process not of knowledge but of homogenization which requires a minimum level of performance," Deloria wrote of the incident knowledge gained is a gratuity.
He said education could be seen from the two angles, from the viewpoint of the Indian
The non-Indian views education, he said,
as a mystical key to success which leads to an understanding of the world.
IN CONTRAST, he said, the Indian should look at education from a universal perspective and not be limited to a Western concept of knowledge.
"When you talk about, education it depends upon how you view the world."
He stressed the importance of changing attitudes before the concept of education became a reality.
"The non-Indian world," he said, "seems to think of their world as normal and if we don't want them to exist, then it'z time to find out what's the matter and develop catch-up programs to bring them over."
He described this process as compensatory education, which has created a type of human "trusteeship" over other human beings.
"They believe they have to start earlier and work a little harder to make the minority more like the mainstream of America." he said.
DELORIA SAID that for education to be more effective, students should look at things in a more flexible sense and not concentrate on the "closedness" of the world.
He urged Indians to really look a look at American society and said the western knowledge structure doesn't make sense in the United States to incorporate all the knowledge of the world.
In the Western perspective there's a continuous split between physical and spiritual knowledge as well as between analytical and intuitional.
Indian tradition, he said, takes a whole, realistic viewpoint of the world that can be translated into terms of western society and then applied to the western world.
He said, "It's time to get rid of conceptual language and to try to understand tribal logic."
"Become intimately aware of who you are and what your traditions are," he said.
WHEN TALKING about reality and the universe, Deloria advised pursuit of education in an Indian spiritual way and emphasized the importance of using western scientific knowledge.
"Education should reassure the Indian that the world isn't malignant and isn't out to get him but allows him to look at the world not through western viewpoints but through an Indian traditional view," he said.
TOMORROW: A BROWNBAG SEMINAR on application to graduate school in special education will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 494 Haworth. NOON-HOUR INTERNATIONAL will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Alcove F of the Kansas Union. A STUDENT HONOR RECTAL will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
TONIGHT: ED DUTTON, associate professor of social welfare, will give a presentation on the United Farm Workers at 7 in the Centennial Room of the Union. ARTHUR GOREN, senior lecturer in American Studies at Hebrew University, will give a lecture on the new England Puritan Village and the Israeli Kibbutz. at 8 in the Forum Room
TODAY: a conference on "INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION—THE RIGHTS OF STUDENTS"
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