Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once uncovered, a "reactionary"' is subjected to "re-education." His neighbors, his friends and his professional colleagues all "reason" with him, urge him not to drive them to the extreme step of ostracizing him. One particularly stubborn Shanghai writer managed to stand up to ten such sessions before he caved...
...other and more important hand, the student may not like it. Even though he will know a loan is for the university's good and his own, there would have to be a considerable repression of human nature on the part of most students. To step out into the world after graduation with a four thousand dollar loan on one's shoulders is not a happy prospect, even if one has a life-time to pay it back. The loan, ever present, being reduced by a piddling sum each year, could turn into a hateful obligation fairly soon. Knowledge that...
...changes the position of the disk so that the correctly answered frame will not appear again if the student goes more than one full circle on the disk. Even if the answer is incorrect, the lever advances the machine to a consequent frame. When the disk spins without a step, all questions have been answered and the assignment is done...
...Programming of the material seems to be much more complicated than the construction of the machine. Through programming, "specific forms of behavior are to be evoked and, through differential reinforcement, brought under the control of specific stimuli." It is the step-by-step organization of the knowledge to be inculcated; and the frames are chosen and arranged in the way which will fully exploit the advantages of "immediate feedback," or direct determination of an answer's correctness or incorrectness...
...first step, said Harris, is to double tuitions in all colleges, and spread the total cost over a 20 to 60 year period. "If the colleges expect to get a fair share of the consumer dollar, they must exploit the credit mechanism," he stated last night...