Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The tendency to be systematic and controlled, to cling to familiar routines, and to avoid spontaneity and ambiguity.  

A personality characterized by rigidity, over-inhibition, and over-conscientiousness.  

A response to frustration in which a person partially relinquishes his or her original goal often involves a lowering of one’s level of aspiration or the acceptance of substitute goals, compromise formation.  

A defense mechanism in which an act or a thought expresses two, often, incompatible impulses, compromise reaction.  

In botany, a kind of plant fossil resulting from the weight of accumulated sediments upon plant organs. The act of squeezing or pressing. A serious condition in which the brain is compressed by blood or cerebrospinal fluid accumulating in it or by a fractured skull. A squeezing together; the condition of being pressed together. It…

A general secondary school offering programs in both vocational and general academic subjects, but in which the majority of students are not enrolled in programs of vocational education.  

The planned, coordinated provision of school health services, a healthful school environment and health instruction (education) for all pupils (and staff) in a school setting, where each of the components complements and is integrated with the others in the total scope of the body of knowledge unique to health education.  

Pertains to the development, delivery, and evaluation of a planned curriculum for learners in preschool through grade 12 with achievable goals and objectives, sequential context, evaluation, and methodology related to specific categorical health issues and problems that affect individual and societal health, comprehensive school health program.  

An insurance policy, an integration of basic medical coverage with insurance against catastrophic expenses, forming a single insurance plan.  

Secondary schools that provide a variety of curricular options for students.