Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insight. Surgeons are virtually unanimous in believing that the most exciting and promising new area now being opened to them is the field of transplantation. After this momentary agreement, they promptly offer a thousand differing opinions on how soon transplantation of an organ from one human being to another will become a daily routine instead of the headline-heralded event that it is today. They are equally diverse in their views as to how surgery will eventually overcome the fact that all animals, and especially man, are designed to resist any invasion of foreign protein from any creature except...
Stressing the positive results of his three years investigation (92 per cent of those taking drugs report "pleasure experiences" and "significant insight"), Alpert predicted that drugs will play "an important hope that those who do not understand the drugs or fear new developments will not prevent him and others from continuing the experiments
...religion affected--helped or hindered-- your own intellectual development, social situation, and moral life?" The editors have not attempted to give a statistical breakdown of replies to the poll. Instead they have looked for "a test of attitudes, a sense of the believer's strains and his successes, an insight into things that concern him most deeply." This they do largely by giving representative quotes from the students themselves. The quotes they choose are not very helpful. Too often they simply step off the deep end philosophically ("The Catholic at Harvard runs certain risks... Harvard is really all the risks...
Classroom methodology could also be improved by using questions-and-answers for the purpose of teaching, as well as testing. It is well-known that students often learn from answering questions on examinations, but hour exams and finals are scanty teaching instrument. Why not incorporate the asking of insightful questions into the regular procedure? Specifically, the instructor might regularly assign questions which deal with fundamental aspects of the course material and which are designed to stimulate insight, but which can be--and are required to be--answered in a small number of words, ranging perhaps from...
Three essays and three long appendices make up this pretentiously titled and somewhat garbled book. The six selections overlap frequently and slight many important issues, but two principal messages emerge, illuminated by occasional insight and cogency. First, virtually all other words on the Cuban revolution are misleading, largely because they do not recognize or will not admit the second message, that Castro initiated and carried through not one revolution...