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Now, I did a presentation at St. Paul's School for Girls in Hammersmith, and I had an audience rather like this, except it was comprised entirely of sixth-form girls.
And rather like numeracy, this is not just an English problem.
Individual experiences, certainly, can influence our perceptions, but so, too, can things like the media reporting things by exception, rather than what's normal.
But they learn that mistakes are undesirable inadvertently when teachers or parents are eager to hear just correct answers and reject mistakes rather than welcome and examine them to learn from them, or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from.
When all homework or student work has a number or a letter on it, and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.
Well, for want of a better definition, it's a city in which the car is an optional instrument of freedom, rather than a prosthetic device.
It's just how big are they, how close are they to each other, how are they interspersed together and do you have a street network, rather than a cul-de-sac or a collector system of streets?
There's one particular curious meme which I rather enjoy.
Time and the march of progress is used to justify a stunning degree of violence towards our most vulnerable populations, who, being perceived as space-takers rather than world-makers, are moved out of the places where they live, in service of bringing them into the 21st century.
So if we were to have some kind of global governance, what makes you think it would end up being more like Denmark rather than more like Russia or Honduras, and aren't there alternatives, such as we did with CFCs?
My wife understandably thinks I'm rather morbid to begin my day with scrambled eggs and a "Let's see who died today."
Rather than the bright, noisy quarters of the hospital, their rooms are calm and comfortable, with actual living spaces for the families, a sanctuary of gardens and a wonderful outdoor playground with special structures for children with physical limitations.
I'm going to talk to you now about the elephant rather than the camel in the room.
You go to a website, rather a beautiful website, and then you select an election.
Rather, when they're making decisions in private, they worry about their own problems, about what to put on the table for dinner or how to pay their bills on time.
CA: So here's a question from Karen Holloway: How do we foster an American culture that's forward-looking, like Hamilton, that expects and deals with change, rather than wanting to have everything go back to some fictional past?
What was he doing in that prison rather than in some mental institution?
"I'd rather let the work speak for itself."
It all suddenly became much more about our human nature and our curiosity, rather than technology.
The women said they would rather deliver on a floor than on a plastic sheet that smeared blood all over.
And by the way, why do these hotels focus on the ostensible supply rather than the demand for sex workers?
What if the attitude was not "the boy has to pay" but rather "whoever has more should pay?"
The language of marriage is often the language of ownership rather than the language of partnership.
The problem with gender, is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.
This is what I came to graduate school for, and this is how I would rather spend my life.
It felt easier to me to attack the person making the argument rather than the substance of the ideas themselves.
Our public conversations, even our private disagreements, can be transformed by debating ideas, rather than discussing identity.
And what I want to call your attention to is not the Mermaid Parade itself, charming though it is, but rather to these photos.
When you build cooperation into the infrastructure, which is the Flickr answer, you can leave the people where they are and you take the problem to the individuals, rather than moving the individuals to the problem.
So the coordination response asks not, how are these people as employees, but rather, what is their contribution like?
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