Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
...task of training teachers is difficult and cannot be conducted without the development of something much nearer an adequate science and philosophy of education than we now have. Trained teachers are already infinitely superior to untrained teachers, but much remains to be done before teacher-training institutions can hope to be reasonably successful in their own effort...
...people of the country cannot be hoodwinked with words. They know the men who fought for the Treaty, and they know the men who pledged themselves to scuttle it. The victory that Senator Lodge and his partizan friends have gained is a victory conceived in shame and born in dishonor. It has put the United States on record as the only great nation of the world which refuses to endorse measures preventive of future wars...
...consider that it is highly advisable that, preferably as a branch of universal training, the Government provide aviation fields at the various colleges. If they cannot give practice in actual flying, they can at least teach the theory of flight and the construction of airplanes...
...general opinion among Americans seems to be that the League is something permanent; something that cannot be revoked, and for that reason they shun it; they consider it something terrible. Were the League this permanent affair that seems to be generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying...