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"No directive would be better than a bad directive," a commission official said.
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One key lesson to be learned from the Loreto experience, he says, is that being overly directive is usually a bad idea: "Instead of saying, 'Do this, and do that', you sometimes have to let students come to you and say, 'Look – this is what I'm interested in.' It has to be driven by them".
It is not, however, a question of the directive we adopted in 1998 being a bad one.
Nor is the frequently drawn comparison with the patenting directive at all helpful, since in that case, firstly, we had a bad compromise text presented to us for a decision; and, secondly, we had the alternative of retaining the concurrent national patent laws for a certain period of time - some two to three years - until a better European law was introduced.
"Most young children," Dr. Tangney said, "really don't hear the distinction between 'Johnny, you did a bad thing' versus 'Johnny, you're a bad boy.' They hear 'bad kid.' I think a more active, directive approach is needed".
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