Word: methods
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...worries that the new Gen Ed courses will focus so exclusively on the “outcome” of science that they will ignore “the skill set” of the scientific method...
...Another approach, practiced by an Iranian-American friend of mine, is the "keeping secrets" method. This involves teaching your kids that the values you teach at home - that alcohol is alright in moderation, that satellite television is acceptable, that a divorced mother has the right to date - are part of a special, private world of which they should never speak outside. This makes a value out of privacy, and sidesteps the delicate task of teaching why it's okay to lie in certain situations, but not in others. None of this wards off the day your son returns home...
...liberal arts, University Hall must remember why Harvard teaches the liberal arts. It is not so that students leave knowing skill-sets or canons of materials, but rather that they leave knowing some and thirsting for more. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is neither a pedagogical method nor a vocational skill; it is a metaphysical belief asserting that studying the universe enriches the lives of those who try. The power to decide the pathway to this goal must be released from the bureaucratic rule of committee and given to the individual student...
...efficient way to do that. There's so much civil litigation out there already - now that they do not have a criminal conviction to anchor their forfeiture upon, this is nothing more than another civil suit. It's a use of taxpayer dollars to attempt to recover in a method that's really duplicative of many of these civil suits...
...Baylor has noted, this is certainly unique compared to the old method of trying to predict what people would do by which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions have become more elastic and fewer people are attending a church because of the specifics of its doctrine. The current sociological truism is that a Methodist who finds his way to church three times a week and a Catholic who attends daily Mass have more in common than either does with...