Word: develop
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...labor in the Government's industries. Efficient hiring and "firing" will be their immediate duty, but to do this well they will have to obtain an exhaustive knowledge of labor conditions from every standpoint. They will see the necessity of organization, and will be in the best position to develop the methods of attaining it. The labor problem has become too big and too important to be handled as it has been heretofore, and the Government has wisely taken the first step towards giving it efficient and intelligent treatment...
This does not mean that we should fly to the ideal of individual development. Our present largely useless "liberal" education proceeds from our inherited tendency to justify subjects on the ground that they "develop the individual," without testing either to what end they develop or whether they really develop anything...
...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...
...which has ever before been placed on exhibition, consists primarily of pencil drawings and small water colors, chosen from a number given as birthday and Christmas presents to his children. Of particular interest are the drawings, as showing the discipline to which he subjected himself in order to develop technique. His more finished work, for which the sketches were merely a preparation, is represented by a large oil pointing and a large water color now at the Fogg Museum...
...enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance as an auxiliary to war. It is far better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than to permit the quality of games to retrograde out of respect for the men who have gone to the front. The youthful tennis player or the freshman or sophomore ball player of today is the soldier of tomorrow. --Boston Transcript...