Word: cathedra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...
...about by a mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical"? Is it not a cardinal prerequisite for any sort of constructive thinking to ascertain the facts and not reach a decision before that has been accomplished? It is easy of course to pronounce our ex cathedra judgments in a case, if we can presuppose the existence of certain facts a, b, and c. But is it not a brutum fulmen and a perversion of college thinking to pronounce judgments in a concrete case like the Greek executions where the facts at least...