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The unteachable student has been told all her life that she is excellent: gifted, creative, insightful, thoughtful, able to succeed at whatever she tries, full of potential and innate ability... The teacher was not so much to teach or judge as to elicit a response, leading the student to discover for herself what she, in a sense, already knew. In the past twenty years, the well-documented phenomenon of grade inflation in humanities subjects — the awarding of high “Bs” and “As” to the vast majority of students — has increased the conviction that everyone is first-rate... Read more
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Police say the protesters shouted phrases such as "warmonger" and "war criminal" during Blair's speech. One person was arrested... Read More
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A new study sponsored by the National Association of Scholars found that professors in the University of California system are often more focused on indoctrinating students than it is instructing them.
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The aim is to protect the feelings of others who have been rejected... Read More