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This capacity for wondering self-searching. Weil believes, has been neglected and underestimated. We have been taught to attend primarily, if not solely, to the input and output of the intellectual computer, and to deny or mistrust the experiences associated with alternate states of consciousness. We are not at ease with our own unconscious minds; we look for reassurance and self-esteem in the external world. "Internal reality, in all its varied forms," he writes, "is a different order of reality that is self-validating. And the most elementary requirement for getting in touch with it is simple withdrawal...
...public schools and 645,000 students directed by Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman, who concluded in 1966 that the quality of a school has little to do with how well its students learn. Jencks agrees. "The character of a school's output depends largely on a single input, namely the characteristics of the entering children," he writes. "Everything else-the school budget, its policies, the characteristics of the teachers-is either secondary or completely irrelevant...
...resolution is a replica of the proposal that the Project on Corporate Responsibility entered on the GM proxy statement last year. Harvard abstained on that one. In the past year, the only new face in the Corporation is the face of Derek Bok. Since Bok is the only new input, he and his staff are clearly behind the change in output...
...Committee on Fellowships and other Aids--which will meet on Monday--has the final decision-making power on the issue of distribution of aid, and that his personal feeling was that the Committee would adopt a need criteria for aid. "But I would like to get as much input as possible before we decide," he added...
...statements attributed to me concerning GRE scores in psychology are sufficiently inaccurate to warrant correction. In the first place, I did not say that highly-rated graduate departments "place very little importance on test scores," but rather that GRE scores are but one input among many in the admissions process. In particular, undergraduate academic achievement and faculty recommendations are likely to be given more weighty consideration. Furthermore, it is important to distinguish between the GRE aptitude test scores and the GRE advanced test (psychology) score: a number of graduate departments consider the former to be a valuable indicator, while discounting...