Word: idealizations
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Reeves said last night that the commission's true mandate was to help Cambridge try to reach the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideal of peace, referring to King's statement that "peace is not simply the absence of conflict; peace is the presence of justice...
...trivialities? What's important to you could be highly inane to me and vice versa. This does not seem to be a message that breeds understanding, but it is an idea that So needs to think about. I, personally, am all for "cross-cultural" learning; I actually think it ideal and beautiful, but I find it absurd and insulting that So insist some people conform or yield while others...
Austin's answer to the question "Why are Latino and African American students, on average, below average?" is that the communities they live in do not respect the ideal of education, unlike their Jewish and Asian American counterparts. Why would they not respect education? Is it education per se or the educational systems that they perceive cannot serve them? Why do adolescent Latino and African American students have so little confidence in the education they receive? Is it because they are not good enough as individuals and as a group to succeed in schools, or is it because they perceive...
Only about 33% of U.S. doctors practice general rather than specialized medicine, compared with the 50% that public-health experts consider ideal. Worse yet, the number is dropping: it could be just...
When it comes to exploiting nature, humans seem to be like alcoholics: either on the wagon or on a binge. The fashionable and optimistic belief that humans can reap nature's bounty in a controlled fashion -- an ideal known as "sustainable use" that has long been the prevailing philosophy of conservationists as well as many businessmen -- is turning out to be a chimera...