Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing to finish the sentence. Moreover, it is the business of the undergraduate to ask large and insoluble questions. He often finds himself doing so till late at night over a wood fire with his friends. And it is the business of the professor of philosophy, if not to answer these questions, at least to make them clearer and more significant; to show him which ones can or can not be answered, and how some of the great, philosophers have puzzled them through to a conclusion...
...will lead him, through his own interest, to pursue some special topic within his general field. The tutor attempts to draw the student out, to show him the bearing of his ideas, and to discover personal points of view; and the method of personal instruction, the-socratic question and answer, is especially fruitful in philosophy and psychology, for these are discussable subjects. There is no single philosophy to be learned, no one true doctrine to be painlessly injected under the student's skin. He is entitled to his own point of view, if he can find any arguments to defend...
...place early in this year, in connection with which the Senate discussed this whole matter; and in spite of the efforts of Senator Walsh and others no way was found to discredit the Department of Justice. As to the use of perjured testimony by the Government. I have no answer to make;--but may I ask if the writer has ever read or seen the evidence of either side, which has been, or is to be, presented at Washington...
...thus turn second-class men into first-class examinees. And his spirit may often be crushed by stupid men who strike no spark in him and in whom no spark can be struck. Lecturers are best suited to deal with such men; for they ask no questions, no, nor answer...
...Bryan's colloquey at Brown resulted from his failure to answer a question submitted by George E. Cassidy of the class of 1926. The question was: 'Isn't it possible that there may be a philosophy gained by evolutionary thinking which presents a worship and reverence for future generations as an ideal and looks toward the development of Heaven upon earth through the use of science: and is not this ideal a fine and worthy one, capable of producing an equally noble standard of morality...