The idea is to shut down the worst while offering grants to help the mediocre ones improve.Mr Cardoso, himself a former university professor, has placed one of his more able ministers, Paulo Renato Souza, in charge of education, and left him in the job for more than five years now.
The mediocre ones, to paraphrase a remark usually credited to Picasso, merely copy what they purchase.
The mediocre ones consist of platitudes — well-intentioned but lacking the force of inspiration or recognition.
"The good shooters will still shoot, and the mediocre ones won't".
Like Tinder, the mediocre ones start to look good compared to the disasters.
Easier said than done, this is what distinguishes the great conductors from the mediocre ones.
c) Before everything else a good team far outweighs a mediocre one – bet on our good teams; they will do well.
At least half of the time, the difference between a great photograph and a mediocre one is being in the right place at the right time, with a camera in your hand.
A good office worker might generate two or three times the revenue of a mediocre one, but, he said, "you could have a good engineer who'll come up with an algorithm that will support ten million people, or a great engineer who'll come up with an algorithm that supports a billion people.
Raftery displays the skewed results of this trend when he cites three recent movies that strike him as "culturally crucial": "Straight Outta Compton," a good movie; "Inside Out," a mediocre one; and "The Wolf of Wall Street," a great one.
