Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...enthusiasm. "Something has to be done," he said, "and it has to be more dynamic . . . We have had a military conquest, but it is not lasting. There is a confusion of the mind. How you correct that I do not know unless it is by some such method as this...
...first thing, says the dean, is to ditch class discussion and stick to the lecture method. This places the professor right off in a position of advantage and makes it unnecessary for him to answer questions. "It helps, too, if you avoid the practice of organizing your lecture's," for this will give the impression that "yours is the brilliant, untrammeled mind, of genius...
...developed the first method of making the gall bladder visible to the X-ray machine. Thus, gall bladder diseases can generally be detected and diagnosed...
Family life is the cornerstone of Don Zeno's method. The very idea of orphanhood, he thinks, is a pagan one: "Every child needs a mother ... not just a caretaker or someone to give him money." Among the Little Apostles the role of mother is a vocation: most of the foster mothers who sign up take a pledge to remain unmarried. Though Don Zeno does not consider the pledge as binding as a nun's vows, he feels strongly that a foster mother's marriage upsets the life of her "family," and he insists that she leave...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...