Word: confucianism
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...earliest record of standardized testing comes from China, where hopefuls for government jobs had to fill out examinations testing their knowledge of Confucian philosophy and poetry. In the Western world, examiners usually favored giving essays, a tradition stemming from the ancient Greeks' affinity for the Socratic method. But as the Industrial Revolution (and the progressive movement of the early 1800s that followed) took school-age kids out of the farms and factories and put them behind desks, standardized examinations emerged as an easy way to test large numbers of students quickly...
...Three decades later, Chinese society has fully blossomed. Chinese today experience a wide variety of personal freedoms in daily life that they and their ancestors had never known. Chinese state and society have also reconnected with the past, emphasizing Confucian and Buddhist values. More than 200 million people have been lifted out of poverty and the members of a growing middle class with disposable income travel abroad, invest in the stock market, dine out and decorate their stylish apartments with furniture purchased from stores like Ikea. Access to education has become far more widespread. Some 21 million students attend university...
...first place. In Korean business culture, when an intern pays for a senior, more established employee’s meal, it becomes a loss of face for the latter. Our colleague’s gesture was a kindness, yes, but also a necessary product of Korea’s Confucian social mores that say older people have responsibility for—and power over—younger ones...
...Asian American Association] and the AAA [Admirers of Asians Association], the latter composed exclusively of a blocking group in Dunster and every male CS concentrator. We here at FM fear these two groups might merge into one, soon creating tons of beautiful half Asian children that love solid Confucian values almost as much as they love the snappin’ melodies of Coldplay.[1] The best way to ensure academic excellence is to demand it.[2] So THAT’S where they’ve been![3] Kirby Puckett. That’s who. And maybe Greg Ostertag...
...From Basho to Banana as his first step toward the laudable goal of a liberal education. Over the next four years, he will also sign up for The World in 1776, The Images of Alexander the Great, Revolution and Reaction: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde, Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community, and Dinosaurs and Their Relatives. These courses, claim the venerable Harvard College administrators, will liberalize an otherwise parochial course load...