Word: egalitarian
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...schools in the U.S. are co-educational. Historically, the justification had more to do with economic sensibilities than educational philosophies. It was cheaper, and perhaps more efficient, to make schools for males and females together. Once people accepted the (once radical) notion that girls had brains, it was even egalitarian to educate the two sexes in the same classroom with the same teacher...
This gave me pause, because it made me realize that I, too, would probably never vote for a Mormon or a Muslim presidential candidate. Being thoroughly inculcated in egalitarian values, this epiphany made me somewhat queasy at first. But I’ve come to embrace my scarlet letter. Why, after all, would I choose to vote for a person who subscribes to some ideas that I might find deeply disagreeable—just to attire myself in the self-congratulatory virtue of tolerance...
...least one day a week, the “People’s House” will no longer live up to its egalitarian moniker...
...have the resources, the motivation, the awareness to figure out how to approach them," says Camara. "By eliminating those, the test becomes much less about strategy." Because it focuses more on what high schools teach and less on tricky reasoning questions, the SAT is now more, not less, egalitarian...
...down to talk to him was a magnificent experience. He knew a little bit of everything,” Kennedy says. “He had a remarkable respect for the human mind.”Friends and colleagues describe Stone as “egalitarian and non-elitist,” a man whose fresh outlook distinguished him from other academic figures.“You could’ve been a street sweeper or garbage collector and he would have been interested in you,” his brother, Stephen, says. He adds that his brother was incredibly...