Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom will become a burden for society . . . All kinds of hereditary defects that used to be rapidly eliminated by evolutionary selection are now being reproduced in our communities. In other words, we are allowing the accumulation of defective genes in the human stock by providing a type of medical care that permits those suffering from hereditary disease to live longer and to have children. This policy may constitute a step toward racial suicide, however noble it may appear in the light of our religious convictions and present-day ethics...
...explanation of this difference lies another facet of parent-school interdependence. The Newton board takes great care to send out to all parents in the community extensive reports of each of its meetings, and encourages parents to talk with teachers, principals, board members, and the Superintendent. "Anybody in this city can walk in the door and speak his peace," Harold Gores, Newton Superintendent of Schools, maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have...
...long," commented a California school board member, "education has addressed itself to the needs of the backward student. It is time we paid the same care to our bright children. If we gear ourselves to the dull and the most backward, what we produce is mediocre at best...
...should have the Eagle's care...
...reward that life offers is the thrill of achievement. A hole in one isn't half as thrilling as landing a big order-a piece of furniture built in your basement workshop will never be as thrilling as a sales plan that works. You and I cannot take care of the whole nation, perhaps, but we can do such a job in our own small corners that others may notice the light and begin to imitate...