Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven hour daily time commitment, students deserve the personal attention that every teacher in the school can give them. It was easy for me to open up to faculty members in high school because of my mother, but at lower levels, I do not remember feeling comfortable at any time to speak with the teacher or discuss with classmates. This feeling of isolated individualism carried over into the academic realm. Rarely were we encouraged as students to ponder methods of inquiry in depth at an early stage in the learning process. Only on a cursory level was investigation and imagination...
Public schooling is probably the last topic swirling around in your cluttered head, but it never hurts to think about it. And it definitely doesn't hurt schoolchildren if everyone gets involved on at least a cognitive level. Education is supposed to be the stronghold of our citizenry. How can it be if a small number of people are actively involved while the rest just criticize...
...They were close matches and people fought really hard," Hricko said. "We can use this to build upon. It shows that we have a lot of work to do, and it shows us what level we have to be competing...
...liberal academy has a special role in taming the barbarians. It takes the few outstanding members of each generation and turns them into the men and women who preserve a society's greatest treasures, the collected wisdom of the ages that defines a society at its most essential level...
...entirely sure that my children'sdecency would survive [at Harvard]. There's acertain level of shame from upbringing that'sinstilled in children; Harvard now seems to beintent on destroying that shame," he said...