3 



This is why foreign assistance has had to meet the conditions of 

 the domestically-dominant practical men and humanists. The practical man has 

 been far more interested in importing techniques than the technique-producing 

 mechanisms. He has submitted the returning national with high-order foreign 

 science training to costly and at times brutal resocialization on the premise 

 that what he has learned abroad was not domestically relevant. And the 

 humanist academician has been far more interested in the visiting foreign pro- 

 fessor's foreign findings and theories than any proclivity the visitor might 

 show towards analysis of the host institutions. It is the machinery of 

 science that the underdeveloped society fears^ not its product; and a whole 

 set of international myths and customs have grown up to perpetuate this un- 

 fortunate distinction. 



Yet there are signs that these barriers may be coming down, that 

 they are proving too expensive to maintain. The motive force comes primarily 

 from important internal elements, infected by the spirit of scientific inquiry, 

 and willing to risk that, in their time, a domestic scientific career will 

 be possible. Sensitive external agencies have correctly assessed this shift 

 and are beginning to deploy their resources in such a way as to support it 

 rather than be used to prop up arrangements already doomed to obsolescence. 

 Other concommitants conspire towards this end, not the least of which are 

 important break-throughs in the communications and travel industries that 

 promise to slow down if not reverse the trend towards geographical concen- 

 tration of the international science community. 



But the contrary myths and customs will not easily expire, and agen- 

 cies of change both domestic and external will need to be ever more discrim- 

 inating in attempting to influence the transition. One useful discrimination 



