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...added that scientists have an obligation to explain the specifics of these issues to all parts of society—and the Church has an obligation to become fully informed...
Likewise, parents don’t want to explain the dreaded threat of non-conventional warfare to impressionable children. It’s quite difficult to explain to a child how poison gas stops your respiratory system, how it leaves your body swollen with scabs and rashes, or how it makes you bleed through your pores. Worse still, try explaining that the mask is useless against blistering agents, which enter through the skin...
...those parents who can’t face a G.I. Joe with a gas mask will have to explain to themselves, and their children, the gruesome deaths of real American soldiers...
This peer effect theory is often used to explain the existence of large merit scholarships and why Harvard is willing to spend so much more per student than we pay in tuition. Every undergraduate is worth something to the students around him. The free rides that some highly-qualified students get at state schools is a signifier of their value to their peers. National merit scholars’ tuition is waived at some schools because they raise the value of the education that paying students receive. If the difference between per-student spending and tuition is a measure of peer...
Receiving substantial help from fellow students is part of getting the most out of college. And providing help to one’s peers is an educational tool that is often ignored. Conventional knowledge teaches that you only really understand material when you can explain it to someone else. Students who do the majority of the explaining can benefit just as much from a study group as those who mostly listen...