Our empirical work on educational entrepreneurship at Stanford at midcentury provides a keyhole glimpse into a diffuse social process through which academic leaders have entrenched federal-government underwriting of academic credentials (Starr 2019). Our theory has two potential scope limitations. First, ...
What Does a High Churn Rate Mean? A high churn rate indicates that a business is losing significant customers, certainly more than it is bringing in. This would mean that the business is doing something wrong, whether that be delivering a poor product, having poor customer service, or a hos...
Scaffolds can be more or less robust depending upon how deeply they are entrenched in an agent’s affective life (e.g., Colombetti and Roberts 2015, p. 1245; Coninx and Stephan 2021, p. 50). Habits (see Sect. 3.3.1) are a paradigm example of robust scaffolds. In user-resource-inte...
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who...
So, resist the temptation to do too much too soon. Savour your journeys slowly, allowing each experience to sink in and take root. Doing less does not mean experiencing less – quite the opposite. By travelling more intentionally, by allowing yourself to fully immerse in each place, you keep...
.It has been argued, for instance, that our own opposition between 'historical' and 'artistic' truth does not apply at all to the early Icelandic sagas.In theEnglish late sixteenth and early seventeenthcenturies, the word 'novel' seems to have been used about both true and fictional events,...
Harold D. Lasswell, in his book, *Psychopathology and Politics*, says, “The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public.” Effective extremists tend to be effective propagandists. Propaganda differs from education in that the former ...
A“false paradigm” might be a preconceived notion or an outdated theory or just a plain old mistake or even an unstated assumption that has been accepted by so many people for so long that it has become entrenched. It might come from a time before there was any real evidence either for...
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. —Jose Saramago 55 Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democrat...
Navarro also cited her upbringing in Nicaragua, which she left at the age of eight to move to the U.S., to make the case that a Donald Trump presidency would echo of the communist government she escaped as a child — as well as that of entrenched Venezuelan President Nicolás ...