Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit its own particular little idiosyncrasies". But it is our hope that the organization which is seen to be created will remain liberal in the true sense of the word. We could adopt no better platform than that suggested by the CRIMSON--to be "free from bias and prejudice: broad and open-minded; free, above all, from extremes of every kind...
...communist was not held to be a stain on one's character. Just so the little word "liberal" has come to "cover a multitude of sins", this time as a camouflage for less respected designations. Properly speaking, a liberal" is one who is free: free from bias and prejudice: broad and open-minded; free, above all, from extremes of every kind...
...that he has no definite opinions--he usually has; but he has reached his conclusions after a careful survey of all the evidence, and he is always conscious, when expressing an opinion, of the other side. His individual judgments may be either radical or conservative, yet, in the broad sweep of his viewpoint, he is neither. On the contrary, he combines the best of both. His is the "golden mean" of Horace. The true liberal is well-informed, dispassionate, unprejudiced--in short an ideal...
...School of Education. Directors and administrative officers must also be prepared for their work. Their effectiveness, in turn, depends on a preparation concerned with problems more fundamental than those of mere technical routine. Accordingly, for all its students, the work of a Graduate School of Education demands a broad constructive approach to problems of immediate practice--an approach, that is, which provides for every student the perspective which will render his efficiency something more than mechanical. "The training of teachers" must therefore be interpreted out of all recognition if it is to express the meaning of what the Graduate School...
...period of preparation is required. Thus, for example, a supervisor of physical education in a city school system must have a highly specialized training. On the other hand, a college teachers of Education must have not only a special subject of which he is master but must be broadly prepared in such fundamental fields as the social theory of education, educational psychology, educational administration, and the history of education. As college departments and schools of education multiply--a process which has gone on with great rapidity during the last two decades--members of their faculties are more and more required...