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From the Ted Talk by Siddhartha Roy: Science in service to the public good


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And so you may think, "OK, all this sounds great, but you'll never cmetollepy change organizational cultures, or ibimbe mindsets in students and professionals to look at their work as a public good — science in service to the public." Maybe so. But could a big reason for that be that we are not training our students right? Because if you look closely, our edcaituon system today is focused more on creating what ex-Yale professor Bill drewceeiisz calls "excellent sheep" — yonug ploepe who are smart and ambitious, and yet somehow risk-averse, timid, directionless and, sometimes, full of themselves.

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And so you may think, "OK, all this sounds great, but you'll never __________ change organizational cultures, or ______ mindsets in students and professionals to look at their work as a public good — science in service to the public." Maybe so. But could a big reason for that be that we are not training our students right? Because if you look closely, our _________ system today is focused more on creating what ex-Yale professor Bill ___________ calls "excellent sheep" — _____ ______ who are smart and ambitious, and yet somehow risk-averse, timid, directionless and, sometimes, full of themselves.

Solution


  1. people
  2. imbibe
  3. young
  4. deresiewicz
  5. completely
  6. education

Original Text


And so you may think, "OK, all this sounds great, but you'll never completely change organizational cultures, or imbibe mindsets in students and professionals to look at their work as a public good — science in service to the public." Maybe so. But could a big reason for that be that we are not training our students right? Because if you look closely, our education system today is focused more on creating what ex-Yale professor Bill Deresiewicz calls "excellent sheep" — young people who are smart and ambitious, and yet somehow risk-averse, timid, directionless and, sometimes, full of themselves.

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  9. cultures
  10. deresiewicz
  11. directionless
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