Search Details

Word: enlightens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...almost any sort of intellectual activity. For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all student, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Clearing the Blurs in Education | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

...department where most concentrators go on to pursue careers in very different areas, the faculty should take special care to consider what students can learn of lasting value by their work in the field. What sort of knowledge may enlighten students in a broard range of careers or be useful in contexts quite outside their vocations? Is it possible to offer a course that will provide rigorous discussion of problems of value and moral choice that arise within the field? How can sections, tutorial, seminars and the like be arranged to encourage habits of disciplined thought and qualities of mind...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Clearing the Blurs in Education | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

...Please enlighten an unenlightened Jew. How many Israelis have to be slaughtered and permanently maimed to justify "reaction" - and how many slaughtered and maimed to result in "overreaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1972 | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

Perhaps the Crimson or someone else at Harvard can enlighten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERRNSTEIN AND JENSEN WHY PUBLICITY? | 5/17/1972 | See Source »

...discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Eaton knows how to use an orchestra; his is big and tactful, never swamping the singers, but it only comments on the action. It does nothing to enlighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Campus Honors | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | Next