Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion of underdeveloped nations. Lall, former Ambassador of India to the United Nations, said that countries with poor educational facilities also have rapidly growing populations. He said that in India, rapid population growth made it "impossible to provide good and universal education," so that 60 million school-age children cannot be educated...
Relying on the grading committee, however, undermines the whole concept of tutorial education. Honors programs are designed to provide personal and continuous instruction for the concentrator. Their value comes from the regular interchange between tutor and student. As weekly dialogues, tutorials cannot be treated as narrowly directed courses which can be put together at the end of the term and distilled into a paper or a final examination. A single ten-page paper could never adequately represent a student's over-all record in tutorial; only the tutor could properly evaluate his student's year-long performance...
...moved along. Here within the heartland of the city-land I was finally feeling at home a little. We did not accomplish much; but the thing that made it so poignant for me, even now, was that I have been to New York on five separate occasions and I cannot remember ever having spoken to anyone of the ten millions who live there while on the streets...
However, the role of grades in educational institutions cannot be fully understood as long as attention is confined to the universities alone. Grades function to socialize students into the work force. On a job, workers do not obtain satisfaction from an intrinsic interest either in the process of production or in the resulting product of their work. Nor do they obtain satisfaction from the social usefulness of the product. Instead, they are motivated by the prospect of an external reward--wages received in exchange for labor power. In the workplace, the need to substitute external incentives for intrinsic interest arises...
This is the wonderful thing about being a secretary, thought Mildred. Typing and copying, copying and typing, you look totally intent on your work yet it is all mechanical. Your mind is free, perhaps even freer because it is chained to the mechanical process and cannot emote idly. Just the thinking part is left open. You get to think about your boss's wife thinking about you. Naturally she's convinced that you fuck him to death. But she won't ask you. You can't come right out and say he's tried but he hasn't tried hard...