Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outraged Northerners might reflect on what these rides mean to the South. They have heard the argument that the Southern Negro is happier than his Northern counterpart, that the Negro doesn't really seek improvement. Now Northerners see the most rabid Southern group publicly confessing that the South cannot satisfy even its most ill-educated, ignorant Negroes, that--and this is a crushing admission--there is a Negro problem in the South. Responsible Southern newspapers have already read this lesson into the rides, and they are absolutely correct. The segregationists are confessing that Southern society is a failure...
Such motives reflect the persisting segregationist attitude that Negroes are not only unequal to caucasians, but are germs which breed trouble wherever they happen to be as well. In a very real sense, these Southerners are trying to do more than solve the Negro problem by elimination: within their own frame of reference they are attempting to wage biological warfare on the North...
...student. In an exam, the educator can prove that his course was a venture in teaching, or that it was devoid of all content save rote memorization; that the reading offered perspective as well as raw data; that the lectures were designed to teach rather than merely to reflect the teacher's personal intellectual abilities. Conversely, the exams may simply demonstrate that the lecturer had nothing better to do than read formulas and dates and imply that the only use of the student's learning is that it can be regurgitated upon command...
...conflict between final exam and papers is mostly based upon the differences between emphasis upon memory and upon understanding. This should not be, for papers have a much narrower focus than exams and may therefore reflect less the student's general ability. The choice between papers and exams must rest upon deciding whether the study should be tested on the whole count or whether he should simply be asked to show understanding of a particular segment. But the difference between open-and closed-book exams in basically that between demanding memory and inviting the student organize and use facts...
...South Africa's Gary Player) among the pros. But though he has been a short-priced favorite to win every event he has entered, he has yet to score a victory in 13 starts. In Burneyville, Okla., for the $20,000 Waco Turner Open last week, he could reflect on some harsh differences between the pro and the amateur game, and on the problems of moving into a man's world...