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...sure why, though he has some idea. At the Friends Select School in Philadelphia, he recalls, "in my day we had a class of four boys and eleven girls. We once started a football team, and I was put on left end. We then got beaten in our only game, after which we disbanded. I was not athletic and was terrified at being driven into something where I would be ridiculed. I remember paying a boy twenty-five cents to teach me to kick a football. It didn't work. When the girls took over, I fit in better...
Given students who know little about an area of science, one solution--the Redbook's, Holton's, and one allowed by the Bruner Committee--is to select topics as representative and explore them in depth. The difficulty here is that without his teachers' breadth of knowledge, the student cannot know for himself whether and in what way the selected topics are exemplary. The selection must appear arbitrary because the student has no knowledge of the field from which it is made. Moreover, Gen Ed science courses which study selected topics in depth in order to induce useful generalizations about science...
Leaving the romantic interest for fairer game, one might turn to James's anticipations of Gestalt psychology. The torrents of impression by which the mind is inundated at every moment produce a narrow and highly select conscious experience. This struck James as extraordinary, and he marvelled at man's routine feats of selective attention...
...suspect that the difficulty for the HCUA and other persons arises in part from the way in which the Association has chosen to define itself and to select its members. The basis of the definition is that the members have a special relation to Africa, namely, that all of the members have ancestors who were from Africa or the members themselves are from Africa or both. Incidentally, the ruling elite of South Africa has by its own assertion pure European ancestors and consequently would exclude itself from the Association by definition...
Errors in applying mathematical concepts to problems in the sciences are as common as parietal misadventures--and potentially no less dipterous. Only examing the practical consequences of various models can the scientist ultimately select the most satisfactory one. Similarly, in defending the pursuit of mathematics against the charge that it is a "frill," or pay-chosis-inducing, or, for some other reason, unsuitable for study, it champions must marshal evidence that conforms to pragmatic conceptions of proof...