Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stolid, austere Amish farmfolk of central Ohio, education beyond the eighth grade is a waste and a danger; it is enough that a child learn to read, write and cipher. This stubbornly held tenet of their strict, old-fashioned sect runs squarely into an Ohio law requiring children to remain in school until they are 16. From time to time in Amish country, parents have been prosecuted for violating the law, but more often, tolerant school boards ignore the Amish boycott of high schools, or make senseless obeisance to the law's letter by letting Amish schoolchildren repeat...
...more psychiatrists learn about mental illnesses, the less willing they become to hang neat diagnostic labels on them. This is especially true of children's mental illnesses, which are so baffling that they defy classification by the most determined nosologist. Yet the term "childhood schizophrenia" has stuck. There has been an enormous increase in this diagnosis, now "fashionable and much abused," says Dr. Hilde L. Mosse in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and it has done great harm to a lot of children...
...enough time. But look-I'm almost 55 now. I don't know when the next elections are, but I'd be at least 56 or 57 then. And as a freshman Senator-heck, it takes any freshman Senator six years just to learn where the men's room is. I know I'd be most valuable in a committee like Military Affairs, and I wouldn't be eligible for that for two or three terms...
...seeing jobs faster and better than humans can. One project is to make it produce contour maps from air photographs. It will do such monotonous jobs 24 hours a day without getting tired or bored. Human factors will have little effect on the seeing-eye computer. It may even learn in time to search through a rogues' gallery and pick out a single face. It will judge by the stable features and will not be misled by beards, scars or other embellishments...
...Parisian painter who trusts his "star." A dealer discovers him and he is beset by fame. New friends while away his afternoons "begging Jonas to go on working . . . for they weren't Philistines and knew the value of an artist's time." Disciples appear, but not to learn anything ("one became a disciple for the disinterested pleasure of teaching one's master...