Word: considerateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your Oct. 21 Education story "What Makes Them Good?": I consider the method of selection used in Robert Marschner's list of outstanding secondary schools to be completely inadequate and unfair. To use the absolute number of 20 finalists in the Merit Scholarship test as the sole basis...
The Experimenter in Holland will learn to ride a bicycle, if he doesn't know how, and will come to consider a 10-mile bike ride a short sprint. He will discover that the raincoat, and not wooden shoes, is the most essential article in the Dutch national costume.
The results of the tight-money policy have been to discourage attempts to provide increased productivity in important sectors of the economy and to discourage the production of new housing facilities for an increasing population. Credit restraint enables large firms, and firms in non-competitive markets, to expand more easily...
Then consider the uncertainties about what might be called the enduse of the product. In the world of the Ph.D. there is no licensing, no state examinations, and often no fairly sure concept of what a man is to do with the degree or any fairly precise expectation of this...
With a family of four, the man making $5,500 a year (well above the average) just does not consider spending $2,000 to send his son to a private school nor for that matter having his son apply for a scholarship.