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...real problem, of course, is the visa system, which ought to raise the annual limit. The H-1B program brings valuable expertise to U.S. industry and helps retain skilled workers educated in American institutions. Under current immigration rules, America risks educating some of the world’s brightest students and best talent, only to watch them take their skills elsewhere after graduation...
Nobody pretends medicine is easy, but if there's one thing we ought to be able to rely on, it's that the doctors looking out for us are doing more than playing hunches. We take certain medicines because they work, right? We go into the operating room for certain procedures because they'll make us well...
...leads to a statistically significant improvement in, say, cholesterol levels doesn't guarantee that the desired effect--a healthier heart and a longer life--will follow. Often your doctor is left to make prescription decisions based at least in part on faith, bias or even an educated guess. That ought to be enough to spook even the least jumpy patient, but the fact is, recognizing just what a roll of the dice medicine can be may be a good thing...
...inquiry into the good life, as opposed to the more traditional indoctrination into it, should still be a central aspect of general education. A truly educated person of the modern world, in other words, must be prepared to think seriously about the possibilities for leading a life and ought to be challenged to take a stand on their own way of living. To the extent that our system of general education has lost sight of this goal, it has lost sight of its most fundamental purpose...
...this and related sentences in the report, some of which have been used to criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place in the context of a broad inquiry about how we ought to live. This idea, I believe, is entirely laudable as a premise for reform...