Word: answering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passive attitudes toward learning. We come to the College not as scholars but as consumers, judging professors on the quality of the services they provide instead of using their knowledge as a point of departure for self-motivated learning. We consider knowledge to be illegitimate unless it provides the answer to a test question, wins a grant or looks good on a transcript. And faced with the weaknesses of the undergraduate curriculum, such as a flawed Core curriculum, large class sizes, inadequate mentorship and so on, we are more likely to complain about what isn't being provided...
...think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out, is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club...
...contrast was striking and made me wonder whether Harvard is better or worse for not having a fraternity system. Regardless of the answer, I wonder whether there is a way to achieve the best of both worlds--to foster campus unity, camaraderie and crazy night life created by fraternities while not jeopardizing the safety or political correctness of Harvard...
Which position is correct? The answer to that question is not clear, but one thing is: Answers abound. Since January, most Americans have developed genuine opinions regarding sexual harassment. Yet those opinions will not influence the law, for it is made not by duly elected representatives, but by unaccountable bureaucrats at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and by the justices of the Supreme Court...
...answer to child labor is not to ban Western companies from hiring kids, for a variety of reasons. For one, if the Nike factory doesn't hire them, some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway) will...if they're lucky. If not, then they'll probably just try to survive by begging or rummaging through rubbish heaps--too many kids are forced to do this already...