Word: understood
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...either in his mechanics or results: his fastball had not lost 1 m.p.h.; he was still hitting the corners; and he had struck out three in a row. To the mound walks Torre, which almost always signals a pitching change, since Stottlemyre attends to nursing and instruction. Wells, who understood his fate but naturally resisted it, told Torre, "I have something left. Send [relief pitcher Jeff Nelson] back." Torre smiled and said, "Go off and get your round of applause"--a wild expectation in Cleveland. Wells smiled too, walked to the dugout, and tipped his cap to the not entirely...
Gardner is right about that. Still, many neurologists and psychologists believe recent discoveries in brain science--the localization of particular traits, the proliferation and pruning of synapses--are far too poorly understood to guide educators. Meanwhile, students of cognition, even those who give Gardner much credit, cite research that contradicts him. "The different intelligences show correlations in many cases, and within intelligence, there is a lack of unity," said Robert Sternberg, a professor of psychology and education at Yale. In other words, some of Gardner's intelligences do not seem to be independent faculties, while other intelligences divide up into...
...emphasis is doing things with his hands. His model of the boat was fantastic. It showed he really knew the information. If I asked him to write it down, it would have been very short." This is just the kind of application Gardner envisions: because McKibben knew that Dave understood the world in a kinesthetic way, she was better able to teach him and assess his knowledge. Dave must still learn to write well, McKibben said, but what counted here was that he showed good understanding of the material...
...began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...
...once and for all. To me, as to many westerners, a course on challenges to American national identity would naturally include some discussion of place-based or regional challenges, but this is clearly not what brings most students to the course. Racial and ethnic strains on nationhood are well understood, but the idea that a region like the Rocky Mountain West might begin to question the prevailing nationalist assumptions seems outlandish--or, in another word, provincial. But such an attitude no longer becomes a world-class center of learning...