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My son's third-grade teacher, who has a remarkable ability to turn reluctant readers into bookworms, worries that too much passive listening will keep children from the active work of decoding texts.
Too many school drop-outs; not enough respect or authority in the classroom (pupils, he says, should stand up when the teacher enters); too little value placed on the teaching profession; too little art and sport in the curriculum; too much passive rote-learning; and too much "theory and abstraction".
But then Facebook decides too much passive video is bad for you or isn't interesting, so its News Feed visibility is curtailed, and publishers have wasted their resources and time chasing a white rabbit… or, in this case, a blue one.
Some simply find the energy to keep working, others have to keep working after the 2008 recession left them without as much passive income as they had predicted.
If, indeed, maternal antibodies have a limited protective effect for nestlings and do not confer much passive immunity, existing hypotheses need to be reexamined.
We believe these issues are largely irrelevant provided one has a goal of determining success of infection control within an institution, if the sampling indications remain similar over time, which is an assumption behind much passive infectious disease surveillance.
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There's too much passive-aggression in modern society to dismiss the possibility out of hand, right?
"We were much more passive about information in the past.
When a bird sought to steal from kin, however, a much more passive approach was taken.
My dad was very forgiving – he's much more passive than I am".
The technology, he said, has allowed W.H.O. to be much less passive when it comes to learning about trouble spots.
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