Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo's busy Kasumigaseki district. Though he looked and acted like all the others, his quick wit and swift grasp of facts and situations won him a new nickname: "The Razor...
...many of the most intelligent people of New York to the school problem has been to flee from it. Rather than stay and help do something about the schools, they resort to private schools or the suburbs.'' Yet "a first-rate school system is within the grasp of New York City." The job begins with recovery of the purpose of the schools-education. It begins with "a drastic overhaul" of school administration -complete divorce from the city's politicians. And perhaps most of all, urged Heald, it begins with privileged citizens' remembering that "it is your...
Second, and more important, is the limitation imposed by the three-hour exam on creative and original thought. Too often it is the student's retentive ability and not his grasp of subject matter that is tested. If the aim of a course is intelligent and independent thought on a given subject, then this should be the quantity tested, not, as so often happens, memory or blind luck in spotty preparation...
...term paper is of all these alternatives best adapted to a sustained effort on independent work. If the topic is narrow, the student must demonstrate sufficient grasp of the wider range of the course to treat intelligently one aspect of it. If the broad synthesis itself is assigned, the student has accomplished essentially the same things that he would on an exam, but with the elimination of the irrelevant variables...