Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place of competition, he said, America needs to develop controlling institutions that include social and political goals along with the economic aims of stability, growth, and wealth distribution...
...older and hopefully wiser people, advises and helps its students--much as a father would his grown son. There's a certain amount to be said for encouraging people to stand on their own two feet, and work problems out on their own--this is one way we develop self-confidence. But on the other hand, there are times when we all must learn that it is only humility and common sense to know our own limitations, and not feel that it is degrading to go to others for help...
John Livingston, Chairman of the Social Studies department in the Newton schools, replied that students can't be "converted" to a frame of mind of "humane consciousness." If you're honest and have a reverence for life," Livingston said, "you'll develop in youngsters a more humane attitude...
...from mine. The professor, he may have been concerned with keeping up his professional status, continuing his research--not interested in education as such but in furthering the discipline. The student taking the course may have been somebody going on to grad school in that discipline and beginning to develop a professional identification with it or it may have been somebody just cranking the grades out in the proper order for the proper fulfillment of his distribution requirements...
...have no objection to picking up academic skills to develop my responsibility fully, but I do object to making that the only purpose and to learning those skills in the context where they have to be used for some specific things...