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1975-04-20 Keynote Address: Chicanos and Education - Salvador Ramirez Page 7

IF YOU SENSE YOURSELF WALKING THE STREETS OF U.S.A. AZTLAN WITH HONOR, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT….THEN, IMMEDIATELY LOOK AROUND, AND IF YOUR HEREDITARY CARNALES Y CARNALAS ARE NOT THERE….YOU WILL HAVE ARRIVED AT THE ONLY SCIENTIFIC, OBSERVABLE EXPLANATION WHICH IS THAT INDEED YOU HAVE BECOME A TOKEN BASTARD STEP-CHILD.
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT AS YOUR EDUCATION INCREASES YOU WILL LEARN AN EXCITING AND NEW KIND OF SYSTEMATIC, METHODOLOGIC CONCEPT OF REASON AND LOGIC. YOUR EDUCATIONAL WILL INCLUDE CERTAIN METHODS OF ACQUIRING NEW KNOWLEDGE, CERTAIN PRINCIPLES, WHICH DEFINE THE TYPES OF OBSERVATIONS AND REASONING THAT ARE CONSIDERED AS BEING SCIENTIFIC, IN SHORT….YOU WILL ACQUIRE A SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE AND ALSO…..YOU MAY BE TOUCHED BY THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE.
THE FIRST AND MOST FUNDAMENTAL CRITERION OF THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE IS OBJECTIVITY. THIS MEANS THE ASPIRATION TO CONSIDER THE OBJECT IMPARTIALLY, TO STUDY IT “AS IT IS” AND NOT “AS IT SEEMS” OR AS ONE WANTS IT TO BE, TO MIND THE FACTS AND NOT THE PREJUDICES OR THE OPINIONS OF AUTHORITIES. 
SUCH IS THE CORNERSTONE OF THE SCIENTIFIC MIND AND, AS IN SCIENCE, OBJECTIVITY IS THE FIRST CONDITION OF ATTAINING TRUTH, SO IN MORALS…..IT IS THE FIRST CONDITION OF JUSTICE.
AS YOU DEVELOP PROFICIENCIES AND GET CLOSER TO YOUR SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE AND

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IF YOU SENSE YOURSELF WALKING THE STREETS OF U.S.A. AZTLAN WITH HONOR, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT….THEN, IMMEDIATELY LOOK AROUND, AND IF YOUR HEREDITARY CARNALES Y CARNALAS ARE NOT THERE….YOU WILL HAVE ARRIVED AT THE ONLY SCIENTIFIC, OBSERVABLE EXPLANATION WHICH IS THAT INDEED YOU HAVE BECOME A TOKEN BASTARD STEP-CHILD. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT AS YOUR EDUCATION INCREASES YOU WILL LEARN AN EXCITING AND NEW KIND OF SYSTEMATIC, METHODOLOGIC CONCEPT OF REASON AND LOGIC. YOUR EDUCATIONAL WILL INCLUDE CERTAIN METHODS OF ACQUIRING NEW KNOWLEDGE, CERTAIN PRINCIPLES, WHICH DEFINE THE TYPES OF OBSERVATIONS AND REASONING THAT ARE CONSIDERED AS BEING SCIENTIFIC, IN SHORT….YOU WILL ACQUIRE A SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE AND ALSO…..YOU MAY BE TOUCHED BY THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE. THE FIRST AND MOST FUNDAMENTAL CRITERION OF THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE IS OBJECTIVITY. THIS MEANS THE ASPIRATION TO CONSIDER THE OBJECT IMPARTIALLY, TO STUDY IT “AS IT IS” AND NOT “AS IT SEEMS” OR AS ONE WANTS IT TO BE, TO MIND THE FACTS AND NOT THE PREJUDICES OR THE OPINIONS OF AUTHORITIES. SUCH IS THE CORNERSTONE OF THE SCIENTIFIC MIND AND, AS IN SCIENCE, OBJECTIVITY IS THE FIRST CONDITION OF ATTAINING TRUTH, SO IN MORALS…..IT IS THE FIRST CONDITION OF JUSTICE. AS YOU DEVELOP PROFICIENCIES AND GET CLOSER TO YOUR SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE AND