Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineering training? If asked this question, we would without doubt answer that this is the age of specialization that the man who is not proficient in some particular line of endeavor cannot be expected to reach any great heights...
...This answer, while being partly correct, entirely misses the big point. The student taking the arts course in the college, or the student in the business school preparing himself for something outside of the engineering field would rather scorn the idea of an engineering course as fitting preparation for anything but the practice of engineering. Likewise, the student in the engineering school looks askance upon those who suggest the possibility that he will not make engineering his life work, yet it is a conservative estimate to say that out of ten graduates from the Engineering School, only three are practicing...
...dealing here with an elusive and maybe absurd hypothesis. I know the battle that has been waged around the problem of the training of the mind. But one thing is clear, and that is that we shall find no really conclusive answer to the educational dilemma growing out of the enormity and complexity of modern knowledge if we attempt to determine the future evolution of higher education mainly in terms of curriculum construction. Any such approach will inevitably drive us to a choice between superficial general knowledge and accurate specialized knowledge. We must look for the really creative development...
...mean anything by liberty and equality of opportunity, we mean not only that business must be free from undue interference and oppression by the government, but also that it must be free from undue entangling alliances with the government. ... If you complain of too much government in business, I answer that the solution is twofold: put more business into government and more self-government into business...
Read every department of TIME except this Quiz. Then turn back to page 29. Quiz yourself. To do well, you must correctly answer at least 80% of the questions...