Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RIGHT ANSWER was the one that the teacher--or the president--wanted. The office of President "creates such respect and awe that it has almost a cowering effect on men." Robert Kennedy wrote in Thirteen Days, "Frequently I saw advisers adapt their opinions to what they believed President Kennedy and later, President Johnson wished to hear." There were two cardinal tenets I We are doing the right thing? We are doing it well When the China experts with three names apiece--John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service indicated that the Chinese Nationalists were losing and only a rapprochement with...
...student protest. Meanwhile, around the world, there have been independent educational experiments-scuole senza muri (schools without walls) in Italy, radnicki universiteti (workmen's universities) in Yugoslavia, ensehanza en equipo (team teaching) in Spain, open schools in the U.S. Have such innovations helped education cure its ills and adapt to modern social and economic needs? If not, what might...
...they teach soon be comes obsolete because of the knowledge explosion. Nevertheless, the structures have remained largely un changed. As a result, the commission reported, "the system finds it difficult to keep up with the demands of an expanding society; the people it educates are not properly trained to adapt them selves to change, and some societies reject the qualifications and skills being offered when these no longer answer direct needs...
...perhaps as Eliot House Senior Tudor Kevin Starr noted the position may be upgraded to adapt to its new occupant...
...with a kind of sunset light. They concern men living stubbornly in the middle of change, hanging on, scarcely surviving. "We got to look beyond our guns," one of the outlaws says in The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah's greatest film. Everyone agrees, but no man among them can adapt, so they die by the code of an earlier time rather than live...