Whatever we call it, "educability" is usually defined in terms of. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: Genes and IQ: An Unsettled Omelet] Reference
Tanton has warned of a "Latin onslaught," complained about Latinos 'allegedly low "educability" and suggested that maintaining American culture requires a clear "European-American majority.". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Potok: Razing Arizona: Given Its Authors, New Law Is No Surprise] Reference
E. Ray Lankester has termed "educability," not less than instinct, is hereditary. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
The power of being educated -- 'educability' as we may term it -- is what man possesses in excess as compared with the apes. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
In each generation they have to be acquired afresh, and with increased 'educability' they are more readily acquired and a larger variety of them. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
There was no attempt to explain the details of this process of habituation; it was assumed to be a part of the general "educability" of living matter. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
There has been natural selection of the more educable animals, for "the character which we describe as 'educability' can be transmitted, it is a congenital character. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Chris Travers: I disagree with you on the educability issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases] Reference
The memory of things; the memory of facts; educability; perfectibility. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Upon the facts as now established the knowledge of numbers seems to be the basis of any educability in animals. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
The third aspect is found more frequently where the concept of taste and its educability comes to the fore, e.g., in. From Wordnik.com. [ART AND PLAY] Reference
I was pleased to have touched her with the Bartok, and even more pleased to see that my assessment of her educability had been on target. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
Evidently we are prone to underestimate the educability of our animal subjects. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
Animals, rights of, 204. separation of city folk from, 223. educability of, 227. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
This illustration may be applied to the entire range of the educability of any individual. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
We give the account of this remarkable instance of educability as it appears in a French newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
(FAIR), whose founder has warned of a "Latin onslaught" and complained about Latinos 'alleged low "educability.". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
These problem tests, simple as they are, have revealed two important facts concerning the educability of the dancer. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
Nearly all of the experiments described in earlier chapters have revealed facts concerning the educability of the dancer. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
That we consistently choose the latter says something about how we assess the educability, the salvageability, of African-American kids. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
The educability of the dog's perceptive faculties has been exemplified in a remarkable manner by his acquired knowledge of musical sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference
The history of human progress has been mainly the history of man's higher educability, the products of which he has projected on to his environment. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
In the case of most mammals whose educability has been studied experimentally, problem methods have proved to be excellent tests of docility and initiative. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
Clearly, then, methods of training should be chosen on the basis of a knowledge of the characteristics of the animal whose educability is to be investigated. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
We mean that in the ordinary life of insects the enregistered instinctive capacities are on the whole sufficient for the occasion, and that intelligent educability is very slightly developed. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
The fact that educability itself has innate tendencies -- is in fact a partially differentiated educability -- renders the unravelling of the factors of mental progress all the more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
We shall more clearly realise that educability itself is a product of natural selection, though the specific results acquired through cerebral modifications are not transmitted through heredity. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
It is in relation to this second and higher order of educability that the cerebrum of man shows so large an increase of mass and a yet larger increase of effective surface through its rich convolutions. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
"little-brain" type, rich in inborn or instinctive capacities, but relatively slow to learn, and the "big-brain" type, with a relatively poor endowment of specialised instincts, but with great educability. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
I disagree with you on the educability issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases] Reference
'educability' which is the correlative of the increased size of the cerebrum. ". From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Limits of educability, 246-248. From Wordnik.com. [The Sexual Life of the Child] Reference
And educability, 195. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
On educability, 170, 189. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Lankester has called "educability.". From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
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