Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theological answers to these existential questions are: (to problems of Being) God, (to problems of Existence) the Christ, and (to problems of Life) the Spirit. The three answers correspond with the triune God of Christian dogma-Father, Son and Holy Spirit, just as Being, Existence and Life may be combined to form a picture...
...should start by questioning the dogma one often hears that all the youth, irrespective of academic ability and interest, should complete grade twelve," Conant suggested. "Above all, the relation of education to employment of youth 16 and over must constantly be kept in mind...
Hard-Working Parrots. But the flaws in the Russian system are huge. Dogma is injected into almost all subjects. Teachers may be scholars, but they are expected to follow rigid syllabuses, have far less freedom to interpret their subjects than U.S. instructors. Rote learning, abhorred by some U.S. educators, is carried to extremes. Class discussion, perhaps overemphasized in the U.S., is absent in Russia, and students are not encouraged to think beyond lines laid down by teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks...
Perhaps the art world of today suffers from an overdose of dogma in the guise of selectivity, from rigidity posing as uncompromising choice. At Fogg's current show there may be many hits and many misses. But the picture, in toto, comprises one of the healthiest group shows we have seen for a long time. That, in itself, constitutes a success...
...liberation of man, a new secular and scientific religion for an elite which was to guide mankind." What happened? His "messianic impulses" struck a response in followers who had no strong religious, political and philosophic convictions, but a hidden need for them. In "the movement" they found everything: "A dogma, a ritual, a leader, a hierarchy, the feeling of possessing the truth, of being superior to the uninitiated...