Word: intellection
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Students will forget many of the facts that they are taught, and new developments will make much of what is imparted today invalid in years hence. I think we might all agree without protracted discussion that an understanding of the value and uses of intellect is essential for an educated person. But the question is: how are "arts and habits" inculcated in a most efficient and lasting manner? Not by a one-sided or specialized curriculum alone, nor by a system of general education that is unfocused and relatively unstructured...
...think that the assumption of a necessary connection between breadth and shallowness is unwarranted. It is the quality of instruction, not the number of courses, that guards against superficiality. Both "general" and "special" education can be superficial or profound. The successful training of intellect requires teachers who believe in the importance of this approach to undergraduate education and who possess the talents to make it work...
...suggests a breakdown in followership. "There seems to be no disposition to follow leaders," said Bunting. "Clausewitz once said that the most dangerous situation in a military campaign was a thwarted offensive. We are living now in a time of thwarted offensive. I mean the offensive of mind, of intellect; it follows very largely from the arousals of expectations during the Kennedy Administration...
...says: "Good riddance." His definition of what he believes surgeons regard as a "reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash as its most common challenge...
...truth. ("If one day they find their way into a book," Graham Greene wrote about the details of a novelist's life, "it should be without our connivance.") Successful biography, and autobiography, are less demanding than fiction. They mainly require qualities that Francine Gray clearly possesses: eloquence, extraordinary intellect and a fascinating life to exploit...