Word: imperfection
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...biggest change, perhaps, is internal: we began at 18 and are now four years older. In many ways, Harvard has been a good place to do some growing up. Part of this is because it is an imperfect institution, and, in the process of criticizing its faults and foibles, we begin to recognize and cultivate our own ideals. It is because we have some sense of what things should or could be, after all, that we are dissatisfied with what is, and because we have hope that things can be made better, that we work so constantly to implement...
...reforms are made. Tests need to be combined with better staff training, better teaching, better use of resources and better organization to have any significant effect. And while standardized tests can be used for diagnostics, by only testing certain skills, they are not full measures of student achievement. These imperfect tests should not be linked to graduation in any state...
Alas, universities today are not that perfect. At its most imperfect, the apprenticeship model has been perverted into a cheap labor source for the university. In a difficult economy, graduate students are forced to supplement meager stipends with more teaching-assistant work, little of which is managed in the apprentice-like manner it is supposed to be. Working long hours just to make ends meet, with little job security from one semester to the next, it is no surprise that graduate students across the country are turning to a historically successful method for improving working conditions...
...sitting outside the bamboo shack that has served as his home for the final month of shooting. "And when you have someone who's perfect up there, when you're looking at a so-called perfect being, it doesn't make you happy yourself. You think, 'Oh, I'm imperfect. He's perfect. I can never be like him.' And that's totally and absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism. It's completely a cultural habit. And this is something we have to break." In the evenings, with shooting complete, his foreign crew members?mostly Buddhist students of his?hold...
...ambiguous--by organizing psychiatric conditions around what he calls their "fundamental natures." Accordingly, he would use four categories of disorders: those arising from brain disease, those arising from problems controlling one's drive, those arising from problematic personal dispositions and those arising from life circumstances. While such groupings are imperfect--is alcoholism caused by a brain disease or a problem in controlling one's drive, or a little of both?--they at least get clinicians focused not only on the symptoms of an illness but on its possible causes as well...