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Pedagogues and Practitioners: Diplomats and the Universities

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Part of the book series: Studies in International Development Research ((IDRCO))

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There is a widespread conviction that ambassadors and universities are mutually exclusive. The milieu of the former is thought to be secrecy, equivocation, tentativeness, evasion and a devotion to absolutes masked by a vocabulary of relatives, whereas the milieu of the latter is clarity, integrity, audacity, pugnacity and liberty of thought and expression.

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© 1985 Robert J. Moore

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Moore, R.J. (1985). Pedagogues and Practitioners: Diplomats and the Universities. In: Third-World Diplomats in Dialogue with the First World. Studies in International Development Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17706-6_5

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