Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three Harvard professors will help the government of Venezuela develop an experimental program to improve the quality of Venezuelan schools...
Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Government, David N. Perkins, lecturer on Education, and Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, are developing the program as part of a proposal by the Venezuelan minister of state on human intelligence to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving skills in Venezuelan schools...
Dominguez, who visited schools in Barquisimeta, Venezuela, last April, said yesterday that Venezuelan educational quality is "very uneven," and added that "there was a very heavy emphasis on memorization." The experimental program is designed to stress instead language use, reading skills, writing ability, and creativity...
...good, and when boxing is not any good it is very bad. There is no style, only brutality. I can't catch the names of the next two fighters. I don't want to. I haven't got it in me to even look at the program. Everyone around me is ugly. They are all dressed in macho and Boston College macho. These are all tough guys. The have all had at least one fight in their life and they will talk about it till they die. And they will talk about Marvin Hagler, in bars and to children...
...strict environmental determinist has no use for sociobiology. It offers only a defeatist and counter-productive program. But taking the view that genes may determine potentialities and proclivities, and that individual development, reflects conditioning plus genetic endowment, sheds a different light on sociobiology. Seen in this way, Wilson's sociobiology could prove helpful in pointing to which traits may be affected by education and which results may be expected...