Word: teachings
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...hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block. It's the outsider's ultimate dream. Use what's different, the Marvel gurus teach their readers, and you could get your own comic-book franchise...
...sense, whenever you go and teach, you’re making an argument for the relevance of whatever you’re talking about,” she says...
...Universities like Harvard still purport to teach the liberal arts, those studies worthy of a free man. Such a curriculum once itself implied an ideal, an end. The liberal arts, indeed, have had as their object to cultivate the “gentleman,” in the sense that the word implies a distinction, a high standard that presumably all, and probably most, can never attain—and not as we often use the term today, to welcome every male individual who passes through the door of a public restroom. A liberal education aspires to make men?...
...course, there must have been something beyond the Boston weather that inspired him to stick around, as he proceeded to stay at Harvard not only to earn his master’s and Ph.D. under Professor of American History James T. Kloppenberg, but also to teach others as a lecturer in the History department. It may look like fate in hindsight—both of his parents are teachers—but he was never certain that he would be following in their footsteps...
...Examples from Socrates to Sherlock Holmes teach us from an early age that smart people master their emotions and suffer no blind spots. Classic economic theory extends this fallacy, says Duke University's Dan Ariely, by maintaining that people and institutions rationally "weigh the costs and benefits of every decision in order to optimize the outcome...