Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that students are particularly bored by the "paranoid scenarios." I suppose Harvard students are really voracious for learning and the problem with "paranoid scenarios" is that once you've said it, it's very hard to develop very much. It just gets repetitive. I mean once you expose patriarchy then what? Any way, I know this is all very shocking stuff...
...defender of the status quo many say: "Of course we should encourage students to develop these skills and habits. But the Core already does that! For if all kinds of rational inquiry depend on them, then students automatically acquire them by focusing on specific modes of inquiry." This argument is flawed in two ways...
...another historian or professor or theoretician, the classroom would be rejuvenated by the discussion of student work. Students would learn reap the benefits of each other's time, effort and thought, and their curiosity about what others had worked on would be sated. And we would be forced to develop the key skills of conveying and defending our arguments orally...
Ellison has taken his appetite for teamwork outside Oracle, most prominently in a partnership with Milken to develop educational software. Knowledge Universe, a company the two started in 1996, will use computers to help kids (and their parents) learn faster and better. Together, Milken, Ellison and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs make up something of a billionaire boys' club, gathering to talk about Japanese gardening, molecular biology and their favorite flicks over sushi or macrobiotic soup...
...eclectic healing he practices, "integrative medicine." In addition to classroom training and research work, physicians admitted to the program will get extensive hands-on experience with patients, working alongside Weil at a new integrative-medicine clinic the university has established. Even before the program had begun, Weil was developing plans to market the curriculum to other medical schools looking to develop similar fellowships of their...