Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This form of learning does have some good qualities, however, Roger says: adaptation of teach methods to individual pupil differences, adaptation of subject matter to individual interest, and the inauguration of many new subjects. But the defects far out weigh the assets, he concludes...
...Ornery Wife. "It's tough," complains the wife of a 35-year-old plant manager. "You have to leave behind your old friends. You have to weigh the people you invite to parties. You have to be careful of who you send Christmas cards to and who you don't." But, on balance, most wives go along willingly. FORTUNE finds that "she does like her way of life . . . She has become such an ally of the corporation. . . it would almost appear that she and the corporation are ganging up on the husband...
Values are left to personal "attitudes," and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of that indoctrination" so notoriously exemplified by totalitarianism. It is a point of honor with the scholar that while the mind should be taught to examine evidence and weigh opposing arguments, or even to draw conclusions, this must be done without at any point insinuating a creed...
Values are left to personal "attitudes," and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of that indoctrination" so notoriously exemplified by totalitarianism. It is a point of honor with the scholar that while the mind should be taught to examine evidence and weigh opposing arguments, or even to draw conclusions, this must be done without at any point insinuating a creed...
...system, with your own private orbit? . . . Do you feel the pull of gravity?" "No, sir, I don't . . . Now that you mention it, I don't feel the pull of dames, either . . . You suppose gravity has anything to do with sex? . . . I know I don't weigh anything, and when you don't weigh anything, you don't seem to want anything." -"The Morning of the Day They...