Word: incorrection
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...term "reading period," then, would seem to be merely a misnomer. But quibbling about an incorrect label only serves to draw our attention away from the deeper problems that exist. The biggest of these is that, as students, we are paying over $30,000 a year to attend a university whose professors basically call it quits two weeks early...
...University, Grogan says, is plagued by a public image both "incorrect and unfavorable"--that it is so wealthy it can do whatever it wants whenever it wants; that it remains totally uninvolved in the local community...
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...sights are more forlorn than an old sci-fi film whose predictions of the future have, with the passing of time, been proved incorrect. We watch the flying cars, the robotic dogs, the pills that expand with a drop of water into seven-course meals and think: "This future's already past. This film was set in 1980; it's 1999 already, and none of this has happened." It's a fate worse than simply being dated. Films set in the hippie '60s or the greedy '80s will always have a time and place; futuristic failures belong nowhere, residing...
...blows there from the land. No. It's the waves... Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not "incorrect" either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as "true" or "false" misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child. What Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young...