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...understand the limits and implications of the concept. Culture is the sensuous expression of a people; it is an amalgam of historically accumulated arts and skills which allows people to express and develop their creativity. The crucial motor of culture is activity, for it is only through applying oneself that one can learn, and it is only through doing that one can express...
...this framework, then, the ability to levitate by mere intention comes from an intimate awareness of some-law or laws by which one is able to counter, negate or otherwise control the effects of gravity on oneself. The process is not so different from crawling or walking...
...besides, "it costs a lot to be a kid these days." To many of the students, she said, high school and college are archaic prerequisites for gainful employment. What really counts, they think, is contacts and good luck. Moreover, she observed, "not studying is a way of asserting oneself. There is a slave mentality of committing small sabotages to subvert the system...
Foes of the reform attack it as reactionary. Says Sociology Professor Orlando Patterson: "Arriving at some fixed notion of what constitutes an educated person-in this day and age. it just won't wash. It moves away from a view that learning to think for oneself is the key to a modern education...
...plea is this--before one sets up a women's dance (no men allowed), or decides that, this year, one is going to read only women's fiction by women about women edited by women with a preface by a women, one should ask oneself why one is really doing this, and examine oneself for traces of racism and narcissism. Before one writes a letter or a paper viciously attacking an entire gender, or elects to make friends only from one sex, one should inspect ones motives pretty thoroughly...