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When should college planning begin? Parents may ponder the answer of M.I.T.'s Director Thresher: "At approximately the age of one year." Thresher warns parents who set impossible goals: "There is no surer prescription for failure in college." He means only that a child's innate curiosity should be nurtured sanely from the start. If he grows up wanting to learn, "he does not have to be 'entered' in a college. He enters himself...
Abed with a back ailment last autumn, President Carlos Garcia had ample time to ponder the stunning election defeats his Nationalist a Party candidates had suffered in the major cities. By all accounts, a major crisis of conscience occurred, for the more sophisticated city voters (whose votes cannot as easily be bought as in the rural barrios) were protesting the Garcia government's record of influence-peddling, nepotism and mismanagement. "Will my grandchildren think I was a good President?" Garcia asked an aide. Manila cynics suggested that another question was running through his mind: Will the voters think...
...Lincoln University, denounces it for costliness (160 senior teachers for 650 students), frets because the predominantly British faculty holds out for classical education against the practicalities that Nkrumah favors. Yet the college sparks Ghana's drive to uplift education at all levels, a model for Africa to ponder...
...Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred to his age by taking the escalator to ponder the virtues of fast footwork...
...here's a point to ponder well- With each new wavy Taylor wreath, We wonder if he's going to sell A different product underneath...