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...later comment, Bruner said that "I resent a statement that there is an official faith." In this society of "free spirit of inquiry," he continued, there "must not be an approved dogma...
...targets. Among them: ¶ Automatic promotion : "The elementary teachers are told that a child must not fail nor be held back because he will be 'unhappy.' But will he be happy when he reaches the upper grades and finds himself still unable to read effectively?" ¶ The dogma that the school is responsible for the "whole" child: "As long as instruction for social living takes precedence over those subjects which are designed to equip the student to take his place as a member of the human race, not just his local community, then education of the individual fails...
...palliative for the excesses of nationalism. And many a non-Jew would welcome Judaism's "uncompromising insistence . . . upon the unity of God, its realistic yet hopeful view of the nature of man, its refusal to accept a dichotomy between body and spirit, its de-emphasis of miracle and dogma, its optimistic view, rooted in the Prophets, of human history as culminating in the Messianic...
...nearly vanished from children's books. In a catalogue of some 400 Little Golden Book titles, only ten have a religious flavor. To an extent, this lack is made up by publishing houses run by the various denominations. There is a Roman Catholic Blessed Mother Goose, with dogma-slanted lyrics ("There was an old woman who lived in a shoe/She had so many children because she wanted to"), and Mother Goose Rhymes for Jewish Children (by Sara G. Levy). Sample...
...office as lord mayor, beefy Max Brauer, 70, was quick to point out that the Hamburg Socialists had succeeded where the national party had failed, because of his moderate, down-to-earth and pro-Western brand of Socialism. "The Social Democrats in Hamburg," he said, "have shed the outworn dogma about being a party solely of workers ... The most important task we have is to set the example for a great people's party drawn from all classes . . . and to shape these new times...