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«The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.»
Author: Ted Morgan
| About:
Elections,
Freedom,
Voting
| Keywords:
bewildering, dozens, elective, Freedom of Choice, graduates, nibble, nibbled, nibbling
«In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.»
«A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
elective, established, forgets, in public, office, politician, precarious, public office, tenure
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, appointed, appointing, appoints, definition, elective, executive, Executive power, hereditary, judiciary, justly, legislative, Legislative power, powers, pronounced, pronouncing, self-appointed
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishes, attractions, awakening, awakenings, boys, compulsion, elective, instructor, instructors, marking, opening, professor, pupils, put on, scholarship, schools, school system, studies, The Attractions, ungracious
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