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...does this at least four times, turning some tolerably good violence into dull monologue...
...sections of Expository Writing has not merely spared students the drudgery of typing over papers; teachers can now students to revise and rewrite until they submit a more polished piece of work than would have been possible without the new machines. In all these case, time previously spent doing dull, repetitive tasks can now be devoted to thinking about much challenging, important questions...
...opportunities that technology brings to life have great educational value. At present, most instruction in our universities is far too passive. Professors rely excessively on the lecture. Seminars are often consumed by dull recitations of student work. Discussion groups are typically led by graduate students who lack experience in teaching, especially by the discussion method. Granted, students are challenged to think for themselves in preparing for exams and writing papers. But all too often, exam grades come back with little or no explanation while term papers return with only a few hastily scribbled comments...
...like best, Type Ts tend to choose complex patterns. In studies that Farley ran at schools for juvenile delinquents, he found, as expected, that Type Ts were four to seven times as likely to try to escape as non-thrill seekers, presumably because they found prison life so intolerably dull and routine. The studies also showed that Type Ts at prisons engaged in fighting and other disruptive acts at a far higher rate than their fellow inmates...
...Midwest during the '40s and early '50s, Schickel belongs to the last generation that automatically placed "silver" before "screen" and "glamorous" before "star." The world of celebrities, he confides, became "The Great Other Place"--a promised land of grace and charm and wit where nobody was ordinary, nobody was dull...