Word: cannot
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...school cannot be wholly responsible for the education of our children. The individual home and the community are jointly responsible with the school for the education of every child. Nevertheless, the school must carry the largest share of this responsibility, because it is the institution which society charges with the sole function of education, while the home and other institutions of society have many other functions. It is therefore the business of the school to cast the more or less vague desires of the community respecting education into definite aims, and to find, organize and administer the means through which...
Furthermore unless the school has the adequate financial support of the community, it can do nothing well; it cannot provide suitable buildings and equipment; it cannot secure and retain teachers who possess scholarship, cultivation, and teaching power commensurate with the work they have to do; it cannot provide the skilled supervision needed to maintain the school buildings and their equipment in a satisfactory condition, and the teaching force at a high level of efficiency...
...Universe. "To those," he says, "who have devoted themselves to natural inquiry, at the same time keeping their minds open to the large impression which that field affords, there generally comes a conviction as to the essential rationality of the operation. They have to consider facts which cannot be otherwise that a mighty kinsman of man is at work behind it all. Again and again the naturlist feels that this or that feature of the order exactly satisfies him, just as he feels that the turn of a phrase or the shape of a thought in an author is after...
...imagination and an unreal theory. Personally, Professor Shaler believes it is not unreal, but is a scientific fact. By a series of illustrations he strives to prove that the fundamental processes of nature are so closly akin to the workings of the minds of men that we cannot escape the belief that some infinite and unmortal intelligence is back of all natural phenomena...
...ought to transform or idealize its subject in many ways, so as to bring out its tendency or meaning. But photography, like memory, only transforms things unintentionally and because it can not help itself. The cause of any change here is a weakness in the machinery of reproduction; it cannot be an imaginative bias, since the reproduction is by a machine, not by a mind subject to instincts and having natural ideas. It is accordingly a mistake to associate photography with creative art or try to make it imitate the processes of creative art. Vague, deceptive or idealized memory...