Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal speaker, Professor Elliott, spoke as an "educational layman". He had two basic assumptions--American teachers are seekers after objective truth, and the function of American education is to perpetuate our democratic ideals. Both these assumptions can be readily granted. But from there on this theory treads on dangerous ground. According to it, since objective truth lies clearly on the Allied side, no teacher can be intellectually neutral. The best course for American education, then, is to preach the Allied cause...
...conclusions of this sort of reasoning can be criticized on two grounds. First, the demand for expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation...
Secondly, pro-Allied sentiment among proponents of this educational approach to the war tends to interpret a furthering of the Allied cause as a defense of American democracy. This, too, has yet to be conclusively shown; maybe British propaganda agents will be forced to prove it soon. But in any case, the basis of such a program for education here appears to be the old "one fact and a prejudice...
Lewis Mumford, historian and critic, will speak on "Cultural Backgrounds of American Architecture" in the third of a series of public lectures on backgrounds of American architecture this evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
Fresh from the epic struggle over the repeal of the arms embargo, the Hon. David I. Walsh, Massachusetts' senior United States senator, will give a behind-the-scenes account of America's neutrality policy tomorrow evening, according to an announcement by the American Independence League...