Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House meeting on Nov. 20 while Casey, Poindexter and North proposed a false story that no U.S. Government officials had been aware the previous year that Israel had shipped Hawk missiles to Iran with the help of the CIA and the NSC staff. Meese claims that he did not learn of the Hawk sale until last November, but North asserted that the Attorney General knew of it the year before. In November 1985, North testified, he saw a signed copy of a now missing presidential finding that retroactively authorized U.S. participation in the sale. The Attorney General usually reviews such...
...this approach has problems that handicap its effectiveness. It's fine to learn the process, but where does a student learn the values he will base his future actions on? Professor Stanley Hoffman once described that when he teaches a Core course he concentrates "on the building rather than scaffolding." Instruction that is obsessed with process will miss the more important "building" of actual moral values...
...addition, students can learn ethics through the moral leadership of the university they attend. Bok, among others, has argued that the way institutions address their own ethical challenges can set an example for its students to learn from. But does that mean that students who attend Columbia, which has decided to divest its holdings in South Africa, are receiving a better ethical education than Harvard students...
...Teaching students values outside the classroom takes more than one such act. Their leadership must be more farreaching. If students do indeed learn from universities' actions' then every message that Harvard sends out to its students must be moral. And that may not be compatible in a large, bureaucratic Harvard of today that sometimes values power more than brilliance, and where competition is the order of the day. What needs to change is the atmosphere of the Harvard community and the behavior of its members...
...read them thoroughly. Current books are discussed along with older, often obscure works. "The show is intended to make people read," Pivot explains, "to trap the viewer by letting him know a little of what is in a book and then making him go out and buy it to learn the rest...