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"The chief justice's masterful opinion showed that line of argument for the simplistic and agenda-driven construct that it was. Parsing the 1,000-plus-page statute in a succinct 21-page opinion, he deftly wove in quotations from recent Supreme Court opinions. Who said that we "must do our best, bearing in mind the fundamental canon of statutory construction that the words of a statute must be read in their context and with a view to their place in the overall statutory scheme"? Why, it was Justice Scalia (actually quoting an earlier opinion by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) in a decision just a year ago. And who said that "a provision that may seem ambiguous in isolation is often clarified by the remainder of the statutory scheme" because "only one of the permissible meanings produces a substantive effect that is compatible with the rest of the law"? Why, Justice Scalia again."

"Joe Griffin explains why dreaming and forgetting our dreams, fulfils a vital human need." 'dreaming is predominantly about bringing down emotional arousal and removing failed expectations and forgetting them="the elimination of emotional expectations theory".'

What does successful learning look like? ...Not a series of remembered ideas, reproduced for testing, and quickly forgotten. But something flexible that is already integrated with the other things a learner knows.

"That paper, titled "How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?," does not take up a more far-reaching question: Why has a mostly untested theory persisted and proliferated for 20 years? "

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""I think most faculty regard grades as a nuisance," he says. But if professors didn't give them, "students probably wouldn't work as much and wouldn't do homework and wouldn't study for exams," he argues."

"how do you let go of easy fixes in pursuit of better solutions that are less immediately accessible? To do so takes creativity, which combines originality (conceiving novel ideas), fluency (generating many ideas) and flexibility (navigating between ideas). According to Bateson and Martin, these are all embodied in play."