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...states had compulsory-attendance laws.* Soon, educators came to accept John Dewey's dictum that education is not a preparation for life but a part of it, and that a school must "reproduce, within itself, the typical conditions of social life." "Progressive" education in the 1930s and '40s thus took the stress from textbooks and placed it on self-discipline and experimentation. The classrooms became more exciting, but soon educators were out-Deweying Dewey; permissiveness, and ultimately anti-intellectualism spoiled Dewey's dream. Thanks to reformers like former Harvard President James Conant (TIME cover, Sept...
Incidentally, Maher now seems disillusioned with pamphleteering, fearing that it doesn't satisfy the Maoist dictum to "swim in the sea of people." He should learn from the editors of Mosaic, who realize that the best way to swim in a sea of Harvard people is to fill paper with clear and interesting argument...
...across the country and had resulted in feelings of fear and impotence among the nation's professors. The University's decision also helped to check the very real, if unspoken, influence of Congress over the educational policy of the nation's universities since it courageously reiterated President Lowell's dictum on political independence before a hostile audience...
...pioneer of building with reinforced concrete. Two years after meeting Léger, Le Corbusier turned out a slim, cocksure manifesto entitled Towards a New Architecture - as though he had decided to do away with all architecture that had gone before. The manifesto was as revolutionary as its basic dictum: "A house is a machine for living...
Cities on Stilts. It was a dictum much misunderstood. Le Corbusier loved the machine not for its function but for its economy of form. He preferred American grain elevators to Gothic cathedrals, but only because they were trim manifestations of a man-made world long removed from the saintly preoccupations of the medieval age. He ridiculed the beaux-arts esthetic that caused designers to disguise railway stations as Roman temples and believed that art nouveau's attempt to doll up houses with plantlike curlicues was a sham...