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...study, that the ISI has uncovered a true crisis. It is extremely difficult to determine what comprises a substantial understanding of our nation’s history and government; there is no reason to believe that correctly answering fewer than 60 percent of the ISI’s questions??–the average score was about 52 percent––is evidence of true civic illiteracy, and not of unreasonably difficult or obscure questions. Although Harvard’s score of almost 70 percent was the highest of all schools surveyed, seniors?...
...connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today’s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted opinion. A fragmented knowledge defers answers to the “big questions?? because it has decided that no one is qualified to answer them. Yet the big questions always remain...
...known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance. The artful equivocation must imply the writer knows the right answer, but it must never be definite enough to eliminate any possibilities.There is a third method of dealing with examination questions??that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter...
...Oregon, she began seeing messages with “Hey you” and “Yo” as the salutation, leading her to insert the gentle reminder in her syllabi. While she encourages students to meet with her and to ask “relevant questions?? over e-mail, Karim expressed some concerns about the impact of e-mail on the professor-student relationship. In this modern age of the internet, “professors are often seen as caretakers and not just professors,” Karim said. But Leverett Professor of Physics Gerald...
...raising these deep questions??while reflecting the comedy of the show’s insane foundation—“Knock” is a success...