Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them.
For a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not.
Most theories of juvenile delinquency have focused on children from disadvantaged families, ignoring the fact that children from wealthy homes also commit crimes.
The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radically higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.
The more foreign capital you have helping you build your infrastructure, which today is an electronic infrastructure, the better off you’re going to be.
Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete and that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure.
Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want, for advertising exerts a subtle influence on us.
The cost of food has now reached a point where a growing number of people believe that it is far too high, and that bringing it down will be one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century.
That pupils mark their own homework is an important principle in Japanese schooling as it enables pupils to see where and why they made a mistake, so that these can be avoided in future.
Probably the most important environmental factor is temperature, for if the growing season is too short and temperatures are too low, tree shoots and buds cannot mature sufficiently to survive the winter months.
As my mother hit middle age, she started to notice that her memory and mental clarity were not what they used to be.
The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.
The modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.
The view of repetitively boring lessons and learning the facts by heart, which is sometimes quoted in relation to Japanese classes, may be unfair and unjustified.
Some of the senses that we and other terrestrial mammals take for granted are either reduced or absent in cetaceans or fail to function well in water.
Although population, industrial output and economic productivity have continued to soar in developed nations, the rate at which people withdraw water from aquifers, rivers and lakes has slowed.
Just at the time when it became obvious that health-care resources could not possibly meet the demands being made upon them, people were demanding that their fundamental right to health-care be satisfied by the state.
The majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.
The test of any democratic society lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be.
One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.