Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendous growth of knowledge in the last century. The fund of facts in an increasing number of fields finally became so great that the educators, completely overwhelmed by it, had to turn the task of selection over to green Freshmen, who were not qualified to make wise choices. This burden of knowledge which is threatening to crush education under its weight is analogous to the structural overloading of our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading of education by our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading...
...present our unmanageable burden of knowledge seems to be leading us to a superficial, general knowledge or to increased specialization. While a certain amount of specialization is desirable and necessary in our complex civilization, it has certain important dangers. In the scientist and teacher it is almost sure to lead to such narrowness as that which has done more than anything else to kill interest in the clas- sics. And of even wider significance than this, intensive specialization destroys perspective and an ability to correlate the knowledge gained in the specialist's field with the other facts and phases...
Although ease of transition from elementary to grammar school is important, it is no less necessary to maintain intact the educational connection with the college. Unless one is to deny many a boy of moderate circumstances adequate training for university work, the public school must accept the burden of that preparation. Already a gap exists between the college requirements, as enforced through the entrance examinations, and the ordinary high school training. Making the gulf wider by increasing the emphasis on practical rather than cultural subjects in the secondary schools is a violation of that democratic principle which strives to give...
...finally had to dig in, itself. A camp rapidly grew up and the yaks and porters were left there while a few of the best porters continued on to the 22,000 foot level. Curiously enough, one of the porters who reached the high level carrying a 40-pound burden the same as the men. Only six of the entire native force were able to climb up from the next stage, at the 24,000 foot level. When finally only the last step remained to be made much time was spent in waiting for a day on which the wind...
...California, to emulate, in its expansion, the Oxford organization. Since its founding in 1888, Pomona has restricted its enrollment to 700, believing the maintenance of its small college character essential to proper touch between instructor and student. However, when there came that urge to expand which is now a burden on every American college, the authorities laid plans to expand, by units, that is, to add to Pomona, as funds should become available, independent undergraduate schools, connected with the original college only through the corporation and reign of general policy. The completed whole will be called the Claremont Colleges...