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Can You Handle the Truth? Research Does Not Always Support Pedagogical Opinions

Credit: iStock.com/Olivier Le Moal
Credit: iStock.com/Olivier Le Moal
In one of the most memorable courtroom scenes in cinematic history, Tom Cruise is Lieutenant Junior Grade Kaffee questioning Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Jessup. Jessup asks, “You want answers?” to which Kaffee responds, “ I want the truth!” Jessup prefaces an impressive, passionately delivered monologue with “You can’t handle the truth!”

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