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...notion that learning should be hard gets little backing from psychologists. The Roman schoolmaster Quintilian, 1,900 years ago, said: "A student should strive for victory, yes, but it must be arranged that he gains it. In this way, let us draw forth his powers with both praise and rewards." Such views lead psychologists to take a dim view of modern education...
Holding Down Prices. That alliance, he believed, should strive for three goals: economic growth, plant modernization, price stability. Kennedy was worried that growth and productivity were being retarded by the nation's antiquated tax-depreciation schedule, which leads prudent businessmen to keep some machinery running until it is woefully obsolescent. "Within the next few weeks," he promised, he would send to Congress "a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment...
...depends on nuclear bombers based at easy-target airfields-will provide an almost irresistible temptation for a potential enemy to strike while he has an edge in missiles, and thus eliminate U.S. nuclear forces with only a minimal risk of retaliation. At the very least the U.S. must strive for nuclear forces that can withstand a first blow-by dispersing and protecting its bombers, rushing missile bases underground, and mobilizing such missiles as Minuteman (on trains) and Polaris (in submarines). At best, all the U.S. can hope to achieve is a situation of "mutual invulnerability." And under mutual invulnerability...
...sacred as in secular music he maintained that only the best will fulfill the purpose of music, whether it be an offering of beauty to God or purely an appreciation of that beauty. To defend his ideals, to strive toward their achievement and to effect them with discrimination--these were the accomplishments of Archibald Davison...
...attractive. The two goals are "contradictory," Kennedy admitted, and achieving them would require all the wizardry of Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Democratic Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. Kennedy went on to speak of a long-overdue tax reform to come, hinting that the Administration would strive to liberalize depreciation rates and to plug tax loopholes...