Editing Teach-in (section)

===Legacy of antiwar teach-ins===
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"[The] stroke of genius out there in Michigan ... put the debate on the map for the whole academic community. And you could not be an intellectual after those teach-ins and not think a lot and express yourself and defend your ideas about Vietnam." —[[Carl Oglesby]], organizer at the 1965 University of Michigan teach-in and then-president of SDS, quoted in'' The War Within, ''Tom Wells<ref name="Wells"/>{{rp|24}}
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"The 1965 teach-ins were significant, in fact, more because of their very organization than for their novelty or the extent of student protest. They legitimized dissent at the outset of the war. The vacuum of understanding which they exposed created a market for information. … Moreover, the 1965 teach-ins served to identify a coterie of academic experts who challenged national policy, helped to make connections among them, and established them as an alternative source of information and understanding." —''An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era,'' Charles DeBenedetti<ref name="DeBenedetti"/>{{rp|109}}
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"In raising anti-war consciousness in the nation as a whole, far beyond the academic community, the teach-ins were an historic turning point in the politics of the Vietnam War. ... This liberal bias of the teach-in movement, however, was one of the too-many-reasons-to-recount-here why the academic community lost its leadership role as fast as it had gained it. Part of the problem was that as soon as the teach-in movement politicized the counterculture, the latter began to counterculturalize the politics. Hence the tension between the political and the carnival in the student left as it moved from liberal protest to radical resistance and campus violence... Alienated by the left students’ tactics, the largely liberal anti-war public reverted to traditional modes of protest, although the marches and demonstrations were now massive in scale, varied in social composition and increasingly joined by establishment politicians." —Marshall Sahlins in ''Anthropology Today'', 2009<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sahlins|first1=Marshall|title=The Teach-ins: Anti-war protest in the Old Stoned Age|journal=Anthropology Today|date=February 2009|volume=25|issue=1|pages=3–5|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00639.x}}</ref>
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Teach-ins were one activity of the [[New Left]]. Students, faculty, and other activists involved in the teach-ins would go on to organize other antiwar protests, including the 20,000-person rally at the Washington Monument in April 1965.<ref name="Wells"/>{{rp|25}} Teach-ins have continued through the decades since 1965 in response to other national crises, including climate change.