Tag: culture
group name: britannica
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August 14, 2006 02:17 PM EDT --
(Excerpted from an article written by R. Murray Thomas, Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that appeared in the 2006 Britannica Book of the Year.)
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August 14, 2006 05:16 PM EDT --
As educators dispense knowledge and students pursue enlightenment, institutions of higher education are facing an array of new challenges and trends worldwide. The following article provides some . . . more
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July 11, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
The good old hockey game, as Stompin' Tom Connors observed, is the best game you can name. Canadians always have difficulty defining their national identity and finding commonalities that unite them. . . . more
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June 13, 2006 06:42 PM EDT --
Digging At The Roots of Grammar
George Corneliussen
BTW, LOL, 24/7, correct grammar or popular usage? When did grammar begin to morph into the self-defined format it occupies in today's world of . . . more
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July 29, 2006 08:51 AM EDT --
George Corneliussen
Quote: " In our time, most fortunately for human welfare, the underlying motive of public education has begun to receive the attention it deserves from those who administer . . . more
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September 05, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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October 24, 2006 09:44 AM EDT --
If government is about social sustainability, sustainable usage of resources, concern for public interest, especially for the marginalized, educating the public toward cultural/social sustainability, etc., . . . more
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . . more
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June 22, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
The world spins on its axis, a cosmic puppet
I feel the passage of time, a comet streaking through my life.
The science of baby manufacturing demands ever greater resources.
I regret the loss . . . more
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September 25, 2006 08:43 PM EDT --
No matter how much things have changed through the ages, much remains quite the same. We still live in a time when Christian conservatives would like to legislate their religious beliefs on the rest of . . . more
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March 04, 2007 03:29 PM EST --
Don't take it personally
Feeling hurt because a critic cut your masterpiece to shreds? You're not alone. Criticism and bruised egos are inherent in publishing and communications.
Here are . . . more
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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December 10, 2006 01:28 AM EST --
A few days ago I wrote an article about a new friend I'd made at The Second Cup.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976854869
Hande and I started talking about our backgrounds. . . . more
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August 29, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
By R. Murray Thomas
(Note from EB Editor: This following examination of cheating was also penned by R. Murray Thomas, Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. . . . more
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September 26, 2006 02:41 PM EDT --
Among the Liberal Arts disciplines, there's a persistent distrust (or is it intimidation?) of the business community. Certainly, this is in many ways well-founded--for example, aggressive technology-transfer . . . more
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . . more
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November 14, 2007 10:37 PM EST --
Here is the big debate that no one is really engaging the public in, and no politician will dare. While the religious right wing in America has forced the abortion debate onto the agenda, and the . . . more
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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August 31, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
The hyped rationalism of the Enlightenment is misplaced as is the hyped fideism of imperial theology. Faith and reason - religion and science - cannot arbitrarily be disconnected from . . . more
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October 31, 2006 04:48 AM EST --
The word "love" is flippantly bandied about. Love is publicly trashed and desecrated. But what does love really mean? Surely a life-style . . . more
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