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...have amongst us an increasing number of 'revisionists' . . . and they are designing for us an education for juvenility -an education of youth by novelty for immaturity . . . The new report [card] system ... is apparently the result of pseudo-psychology gone mad . . . a doctrine of avoidance of strain, tension, frustration, and evasion of external standards . . . This doctrine would leave to the immature individual the decision on principles of right and wrong, good and bad, self-indulgence and duty, privileges and responsibilities, rather than presenting as inviolable, standards of excellence...
This man obviously is eminently qualified to lead the world. You will note how much smarter he is, for example, than your writer. In 490 words, your writer missed this double-pointed puzzle. Not so the cab driver. In two simple sentences, the cabbie got right down amongst the ribs and started probing the heart of the matter. He does it every time, and so does the scrubwoman...
...governor sent four men on fowling, that so -we might after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labors. These four, in one day, killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms...
...probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when the pie was cut, to cause a "diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests...
...world whatever it may be ... Redemption is a perpetual fight, a perpetual effort of mankind against the inner evil that strangles it. Then why have these songs of joy and deliverance, started maybe a bit clumsily by the great socialist leaders, met only with condemnation amongst us, contented hearts and closed minds that we are? ... Why have we, who are living no more the lot of the poor, lost the meaning of the word 'Saviour...