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Good Teaching Is Creating Really Interesting Generalizations Out Of War Stories.

The First Country To Adopt Happiness As An Official Goal Of Public Policy Is The Tiny Little Country Of Bhutan In Asia Near China And India.

Greater Inequality In Europe Has Made People Less Happy.

Critics Of American Colleges Typically Attribute The Failings Of Undergraduate Education To A Tendency On The Part Of Professors To Neglect Their Teaching To Concentrate On Research. In Fact, The Evidence Does Not Support This Thesis, Except Perhaps In Major Research Universities.

Although Professors Regard Improving Critical Thinking As The Most Important Goal Of College, Tests Reveal That Seniors Who Began Their Studies With Average Critical Thinking Skills Have Progressed Only From The 50th Percentile Of Entering Freshmen To About The 69th Percentile.