Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar peculiarly fitted to act as social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born to the purple have trouble retaining their inherited status without this...
...author is actually concerned not with coeducation but with the independent woman's college, and mentioned Radcliffe only once, favorably. The printed version is indebted to many helpful comments made by participants in the Sarah Lawrence conference. its leaders. Usually this pattern is more or less hereditary, with people learning their roles by continual exposure since childhood to the prerequisite values and attitudes. Professional people learn the mores of professionalism by having professional parents, and businessmen are raised from childhood to take over father's business. But in our highly complex society this system is inadequate, because successful people...
Wild answered a proposal by H. Christopher Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Guest Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, saying that he would approve of a Christian culture course "with other alternatives." He said that students should have an opportunity to learn about the cultures of other religions as well...
...computer men have been able to build only a slight amount of learning ability into a few experimental machines. But they have great plans for the future. Dr. S. Gill of Ferranti Ltd. (British computer manufacturer) said that machines that can really learn will have vast abilities. They will compose music, their style of composition varying with the kinds of music they have been "listening to." They will operate airway control systems. They may even perform surgical operations, watching their own incisions and stitching with television eyes, keeping track automatically of the patient's blood pressure, respiration...
Electronic Surgeon. These complex abilities cannot be built into a machine from the outset, said Dr. Gill. The machine would have to learn them by long observation and training. The music-composing machine might learn-by-doing right from the start, but an "untrained" machine should not be put in charge of an airway system or operating room. It must first be permitted to watch human surgeons or traffic controllers. When it reached the human level of experience and intelligence, it could take over. From that point it should grow better and better, far surpassing humans...