Word: homework
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...come, in the American political context, to advocating state imposition of religious practice. Proponents deny this. One fig leaf is that school prayer will be voluntary. But in the universe of the eight-year-old, and certainly in his school life, very little is voluntary: not homework, nor discipline, nor even attendance...
Thesis and paper writers at Harvard who have immediate access to pc's or word processors have an advantage over those who do not. Computer science students who can now roll out of bed to do their homework will have an easier time of it than those who have to trudge over to the Science Center and then brave the daunting lines and terminal foul-ups that show no sign of ceasing. These aren't the problems of some hypothetical future--they affect students now. And while Harvard may not be able to hand out pc's to everyone...
Thesis and paper writers at Harvard who have immediate access to pc's or word processors have an advantage over those who do not. Computer science students who can now roll out of bed to do their homework will have an easier time of it than those who have to trudge over to the Science Center and then brave the daunting lines and terminal foul-ups that show no sign of ceasing. These aren't the problems of some hypothetical future--they affect students now. And while Harvard may not be able to hand out pc's to everyone...
...itch to start questioning authority. A reader may even suspect that his opinion is worth just as much as that of any horn-rimmed oracle in the land. Beware. Lest a layman become so emboldened that he or she starts holding forth at cocktail parties without having done the homework, Cerf and Navasky offer the last words of John B. Sedgwick, a Union Army general at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" -By Donald Morrison
Mondale also promised "a renaissance in education, in science and learning," advising parents to "turn off that television" so students can do their homework. On foreign affairs, he pledged that he would "work for peace from my first day in office and not from my first day of campaigning for re-election...