Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently torn apart by student protest. Meanwhile, around the world, there have been independent educational experiments-scuole senza muri (schools without walls) in Italy, radnicki universiteti (workmen's universities) in Yugoslavia, ensehanza en equipo (team teaching) in Spain, open schools in the U.S. Have such innovations helped education cure its ills and adapt to modern social and economic needs? If not, what might...
...Trying to cure the heroin problem by destroying the sources of heroin is like trying to cure the problem of overweight by destroying the sources of food. Fantastic...
...narcotics problem, the Government should make this standing offer: any confirmed addict who betrays his supplier to the authorities will be rewarded with a lifetime prescription to his favorite stuff, free injections at any federal dispensary (or the cure if he prefers). When pushers are afraid of their own customers, they will abandon the business and retail outlets will dry up. There might be complications, protecting informers from retaliation, but the principle is a sound one with potential for great impact on illegal trade...
...which was originally proposed not by a professional but by a hospital aide, is that chronic mental patients are dependent personalities who do not have much motivation to change their behavior as long as they have other people to look after them. DeLeon's goal was not to cure their dependence but to transfer it to the family group. "Once you switch your attitude toward these people and assume they are in control of themselves," he says, "they no longer go out of control...
...movement for social reform get blocked and channeled into educational strategies. The dramatic case is Head Start. Now I'm not against Head Start, I think it's a good program. The kids are having a good time and everything but I do not think it is a cure for poverty. I guess some of the people who promoted it did think it could cure poverty but I don't think they thought very hard about it. I would hope that the effect of the book would be to get people to think more realistically about the actual effect...