Educationalists in countries such as Japan and South Korea, whose school systems are much admired by promoters of the new orthodoxy, worry that their pupils fail to develop the creativity that western schools seem to inculcate in their pupils.

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Friends, we are running through a playbook of national decline laid out by thinkers ranging from Gibbon to Montesquieu (use of mercenaries to fight our wars and clean our toilets, imperial overreach, an intellectually apathetic citizenry, onerous taxes, tax evasion, failure to protect borders, and failure to inculcate newcomers in the time-honored values of the nation).

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Rather than viewing this as necessitating the long-term continuation of incentives, however, we are researching how to implement incentives in ways that inculcate persistent habits.

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The association's leaders should redouble their efforts to inculcate an "ASEAN spirit" in the region's populations.

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The most benign explanation for this (hat-tip to my wife for suggesting) is that perhaps these personality tests, and the concept of personality types, is simply a way that businesses try to inculcate a rudimentary sense of empathy, in a scalable way.

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Instead of just focusing on big name British companies to sign big ticket deals, Mr Cameron has brought with him 30-odd small- and medium-sized firms in the hope that they can inculcate a new generation of trade and entrepreneurial links with India.

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