Word: tampered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Values are left to personal "attitudes," and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of that indoctrination" so notoriously exemplified by totalitarianism. It is a point of honor with the scholar that while the mind should be taught to examine evidence and weigh opposing arguments, or even to draw conclusions, this must be done without at any point insinuating a creed...
Values are left to personal "attitudes," and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of that indoctrination" so notoriously exemplified by totalitarianism. It is a point of honor with the scholar that while the mind should be taught to examine evidence and weigh opposing arguments, or even to draw conclusions, this must be done without at any point insinuating a creed...
...these times of paucity of respect for the past, let us not tamper with the grassy slopes that extend out toward the crass commercialism of Slough . . . If the first Duke of Wellington did not say this in so many words, then one of his post-cedents should have. HARRY HESS New York City...
...when it convenes Oct. 9, will be asked to authorize the federal government to go ahead with the navigation project (cost: $500 million), while New York and Ontario develop the power (cost: $330 million). There is one possible hitch under a 1909 treaty: neither the U.S. nor Canada may tamper with St. Lawrence water levels without the other's O.K. Thus far, no serious opposition to an all-Canadian seaway has developed in Washington, but Canadians have learned to keep fingers crossed...
...hand'...teachers hesitate to teach their students how to choose among opinions, and hesitate themselves to choose." They are reluctant "to be explicit on questions of value. Social 'science' no longer embraces knowledge of the good. Values are left to personal 'attitudes,' and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of...'indoctrination...