Word: backgrounder
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...down in the lounge to watch the presidential debates, I was hoping to hear interesting comments from my dorm mates and fellow students, who are diverse in background and academic interests. Instead, I was shocked to hear a series of unintelligent and uninformed comments at each turn. In a series of debates critical to the future of our nation, it was appalling to hear such a juvenile response from my peers...
...complete failure to give students the appropriate background and appreciation of their intellectual heritage (as well as a failure on the part of the students to seek...
Partially as a result of the first factor, and partially as a consequence of the rise of constructivist thought in pedagogy, the educational system fails to teach students about the march of human knowledge. Students are not given adequate background in basic logic and classical thought, and are thus not able to assess modern-day issues in their appropriate context. Their lack of training in logic leads to obvious complications. This also creates the problem that students are unable to engage when they are taken away from familiar ground...
...sure that my fellow students always realize it. In fact, Jon Stewart was recently on CNN’s Crossfire complaining that the news media had sunk to his level of analysis. Somehow, cynicism and kitsch have become much more palatable than logic. In that cultural background, it should be no surprise that students prize a one-line zinger above reason...
...constantly creating new opportunities, pressing the ball forward past would-be defenders. Add to that her unique background, and it is no wonder that she has remained an enigma to her opponents...