Word: factualism
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According to Farnsworth, an emphasis on factual material and the sciences in higher education has obscured the vital area of personal development. Starting with education as "the process by which we learn to relate ourselves to others . . . and cope with uncertainty," Farnsworth voiced concern over the lack of "personal fulfillment and emotional richness...
...epics. But it should be pointed out that Henry V and Gone With the Wind were both Technicolor epics, yet succeeded as art as well as escapist entertainment. Desiree does neither, though it had all the potentialities: a cast of true actors, a sensitive script writer, and a factual basis in one of history's more romantic escapades. Its great flaw stems from the fact that it was filmed in a wide-screen process by a director who was apparently ignorant or stubborn...
...difficulty is one of developing students' education on two fronts, Berry said. The first is the factual background essential to good medicine; the second is the perspective and creativity necessary to treat patients as human beings with complex sets of problems, rather than as isolated sets of symptoms...
...Bicks plans to revive it to fill "a crying need for dissemination of factual information on higher education in the U.S. throughout the world...
Your editorial of Monday entitled "Counsel to the Council" contained a few factual errors. In order to clarify this rather confused situation, might I correct some of these errors...