Word: basic
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...know what I'm talking about, unless, of course, you are one of those in need. Home training (also known as common courtesy, respectability, manners and decency) is that basic, minimal level of civility upon which most constructive human interaction is based. Home training teaches us to say hello to people who greet us, not to yell in church or pick our noses in public or let the door slam behind us in someone's face. But may be these concepts are too trivial for the Harvard student who is busy becoming a future leader. After all, company executives, mayors...
Perhaps indulging in simple manners takes up too much time for the average over-committed Harvard student. But let's look at something that involves the least amount of thought: basic greetings...
People, we should know better. Remember in elementary school when you'd do something inappropriate and the teacher would ask, "Now would you do that at home?" Invariably the answer was "No ma'am." Frighteningly, it seems we have forgotten this basic childhood lesson...
...America develops a population divided by those who speak, read, and write Ebonics and those who speaks, reads, and write standard English, there will be a basic communication problem in the United States, and one side just won't be able to understand what the other is trying to say. If we can't communicate with one another, how can a division ever be erased or at least fluid...
...that the large size of a department like economics has advantages, such as the great number of class offering and immense teaching staff, which will be further increased within the next few years. However, increasing and diversifying the number of new professors cannot entirely solve some of the most basic problems. Deciphering the economics department's complex requirements would seem to require more than the bi-annual five-minute conversation with the fifth-year graduate student who serves as my house concentration adviser and signs my study cards...