Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understanding and appreciation of a broad field of knowledge that it should be required. Gen Ed must look to the years after college when a man is a specialist, professional, or technocrat. It must train him for another role--nothing less than a citizen whose quality of mind can comprehend a pluralistic society...
...galaxies, reach on reach of dark space, steppes of stars, oceanic darkness and light. There is no god in it, no particular concern or particular mercy. Yet everywhere I see a living balance, a rippling tension, an enormous yet mysterious simplicity, an endless breathing of light. And I comprehend that being is understanding, that I must exist in hazard but that the whole is not in hazard. Seeing and knowing this is being conscious; accepting it is being human...
Galbraith said the Senator drew his support from the "genuine extremists and the lunatic fringe" and from the "Outsiders." He explained that the "Outsiders" were people who could not comprehend the complexities of modern domestic and foreign policy, and that Goldwater satisfied their "Yearning" for a spokesman...
...this will increase the lower level requirement by one course, from three to four, we believe this is a needed change in a college program designed to counter increasing specialization. Because we think the generally educated man is distinguished not by what he knows, but by the ability to comprehend and assimilate a broad range of material, this rule should be the keystone of the new program...
...four large fields of knowledge which will encourage him to delve further into that area and be able to organize his thoughts when he does so. In short, the generally educated man is distinguished not by the breadth of what he knows, but by this ability to comprehend and assimilate a broad (general, if you will) range of material...