Word: scholasticism
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How can we enter here to grow in religious wisdom? There are courses on religion, but experience is more powerful than scholastic involvement. For a start, go to one of the many churches in and around the Square, attend services at Hillel and read posters about Christian a cappella groups...
The information superhighway does its best to run in a straight line. A search for the word "hockey," will yield "puck.com"; searching for "weather" produces copious charts and myriad maps. Predictable. But throw a loaded word like "noir" into the query box, and suddenly this so-called super-highway has...
So much for the lawlessness, now for the foolishness. Despite blather about the "information superhighway" in popular culture, connecting classrooms and libraries to the Internet is a horrible idea. The Internet at best brings convenience to everyday life. It allows us to check the weather, the news, the stock market...
We can argue over the relative quality of rooms, the availability of quality television programming, and the scholastic importance of centipedes until next year's lottery rolls around, but in the final analysis only one thing is clear: the Quad is extremely far away. The proverbial Timbuktu is also far...
Classroom teachers are sharply divided on the effectiveness of bilingual education. Research on the subject is hampered by the hodgepodge of programs adopted by local school districts, the inconsistent testing of bilingual students and a shortage of bilingual teachers and textbooks. For these reasons, only a third of California's...