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Bird has no credentials in education other than her degrees from the universities of Toledo and Wisconsin, but she apparently has done her homework. She writes that "College is good for some people, but it is not good for everybody." The problem, she says, is that for the past decade or so, in a great wave of democratization, society has made college available-if not imperative-to most of the youthful population. Fully half of all U.S. high school graduates now go on to some form of higher education, and the percentage is climbing every year...
Besides helping with homework and doing the family finances, mothers manage to spend a great deal of time with their children- among other things teaching them the various ritual forms of greetings and farewells. Appearances count in Japan and influence reality. The measure of "sincerity" in the complex act of apologizing for a traffic accident, for in stance, helps determine the eventual fine imposed by the judge. Such simple but pervasive social medicine helps fight off alienation and spiritual exhaustion...
Both teams are out of the same "skate-the-other-team-into-the-ice" school. In Harvard's previous victory over B.U. the Terriers apparently hadn't done their homework and returned to Comm Ave. with a 7-2 failing grade...
...appearance of President Bok on Lawrence Spivak's Meet the Press TV program will solve no problems. It will be seen by millions and may well exacerbate the situation. One pertinent question asked by an investigative newsman, who has done his homework, answered honestly by the President, may further expose existing maladjustments between university and faculty, to the millions watching and listening...
...that to get along, go along; perhaps he has also learned from John Nance Garner that "you can't know everything well. Learn one subject thoroughly." In a place where talk is cheap and oratory poor, his fellow legislators will judge him by whether he has "done his homework" well-and that phrase accurately registers the tedium involved. Going along, getting along, he becomes part of the system; a student of fallibility and a scholar of compromise; a man who nonetheless tries to be guided by, and to act upon, his own convictions as much...