Word: disciplinarianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...republic," he explained, "and advancement depends entirely on the individual. Almost all the professions and businesses open to men in the United States are open to the citizens of the republic. The chief justice is usually one of the prominent lawyers and the chief of police a capable disciplinarian. But before a citizen can be a lawyer, he must pass a strenuous bar examination. Those who are successful in business eat at the costly restaurants run by their fellow citizens, while the poor must forego deserts and cakes and eat at cheap lunch rooms...
This deficiency of harmony, which is somewhat difficult to analyze, is more often than not the result of an unwarrantable omission on the part of the professor. Secure in his perfect knowledge of the subject, and confident of his ability as a disciplinarian, he neglects to treat his students as human beings and travellers on the same road which he himself once trod. The results are disastrous. In consequence of this assumption of an inacessible intellectual and social plane, the scholarship of the professor is naturally looked upon as senseless pedantry, while the enforcement of discipline on his consequently restless...