Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lands, gardens and parks. But Dubos warned that for every pound of food produced by these areas there is an enormous expenditure of energy-to make and drive the farmer's tractors, to irrigate the land, to manufacture fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, he took issue with another ecological dogma-that expansion of energy production should be curtailed. The continued well-being of agriculture, he said, is "intimately bound to the development of new sources of energy, as are all other aspects of human life...
...housing shortage, Poles are now being encouraged to invest their savings in construction cooperatives or even to build their own houses. "I am a true capitalist," said the president of a cooperative near Warsaw. "I am helping these men to create wealth." But does not home ownership violate Marxist dogma on the accumulation of private wealth? "We solved that problem," declared the deputy head of Poland's Housing Authority. "We now consider housing to be personal property like books or clothing. Marx had nothing against that type of possession...
...case-studies method was introduced at the Law School and developed in the Business School. "Using them (case studies) we can get away from merely teaching principle of dogma to looking at actual cases." Dr. Curran said...
...death throes of imperialism and the inevitable victory of Communism. Yet even if the situation does not work out exactly that way, it would be quite unlikely that the Soviets would use their own military might in Viet Nam to try to prove the correctness of the Marxist dogma...
BESIDES THE virtues of clear and thorough reporting, Featherstone's book boasts at least two other invaluable assets; an unremitting emphasis on the need to resist dogma and to create change thoughtfully, if slowly in practice as well as in theory, and a refreshing understanding of where reforms probably begin and end, of how far schools may improve with straightforward changes in practice and to what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called...