In order to gauge a student's intellectual profile and readiness to enter the field as a teacher and scholar, the preliminary exam requires scholarly performance under time constraints.
Yet one cannot help feeling that if these professors represent the intellectual resolve and emotional readiness to nurture a new generation, it's a case of the blind (the scholars) leading the seeing (the students).
They were devastated by the chairman's lack of interest or skill in intellectual argument and his readiness to make big decisions on a basis of ignorance or prejudice.
Admission is competitive and decisions are based on evaluations of applicants' intellectual ability, social and emotional maturity, and readiness for the accelerated program of study.
Drs. Wright and Huston were chosen because they had done a similar study in 1980-83 in Topeka, Kan., analyzing television viewing by young children and its effect on various intellectual measures, although not on school test results or school readiness.
Development through different intellectual phases, he believed, is necessarily coincident with relevant active experience; readiness is actively promoted, not passively entered, and the teacher must endeavour to be a step ahead of any particular level of readiness.
An individual's readiness for innovation is reflected by his or her intellectual skills and traits that, in the context of this narrative, we interpret as technical skills (e.g., computer skills) and cognitive skills/traits (e.g., EBM skills, attitudes towards using evidence and intrinsic learning motivation) [ 37].
In addition to the reasons for the lack of "readiness" that have been discussed already, the role of strong intellectual, political, and administrative leadership is especially important in shaping public and professional opinions (Brukas and Weber 2009).
However, considering the items used in the readiness-to-learn scale, different theoretical constructs, for example, from personality psychology (openness, typical intellectual engagement; Goff and Ackerman 1992; need for cognition; Cacioppo and Petty 1982) may be relevant for the conceptualization of readiness-to-learn as well.
Samet's version of that principle, as she applies it to her students, should be heeded by journalists and politicians: "Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers — the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes — eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them.
