Word: edman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become somewhat of a convention among professors who are apostles of the older order in education to adopt an attitude of well-bred superiority whenever mention is made of introducing vocational subjects into college curricula. Consequently it is refreshing to hear a new voice crying in the wilderness. Professor Edman of Columbia in the October "Century" maintains that the citadel from which the cultured professors sneer at their more practical-minded brethren is itself far from impregnable. He charges that these scholars are lecturing as if their classes were all composed of independently wealthy youths being fitted for sinecure positions...
...number of students affected in this way is probably much smaller than Professor Edman would have one believe. The average undergraduate seems rarely to find his love of abstract Beauty and Truth so strong that is causes him to shrink from existence. However, there are undoubtedly a considerable number of sensitive men who go through such an experience. That this is an evil seems self-evident. Education is simply instruction in the art of living, and when it becomes divorced from life it loses all its meaning. The fundamental remedy for this situation as for a considerable number of other...
...Richard Kane" has often walked into Teacher Edman's office between April and June seeking surcease from the throes of graduation, wondering what he is to do with his awakened, sensitive self in a cold, hard world. Says Teacher Edman: "The problem of giving Richard advice would have been simplified if he were a genius. He isn't. He is simply one of a constant group who come to college and become genuinely attached to what its defamers call the higher life. He is, if you will, living beyond his intellectual income. He is a dilettante, an amateur...
...Century for October contributed much food for the thought of parents and pedagogs on higher education in the U. S. It published speculations by one Irwin Edman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, upon the mentality, moods and the painful dilemma of "Richard Kane," undergraduate of today, brother of "Ferguson-Rex," whose portrait appeared last month in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, Sept...
...having got "Richard Kane" into this predicament, by half-fledging the wings of his spirit and not developing his practical mental legs, educators almost qualify, says Mr. Edman, for the title the Athenians gave Socrates- "corrupter of youth." Not that Edman stands advocate for courses in horseshoeing, manicuring, potato culture or space-selling; but he sees a possibility for "following the example of certain recent journalistic enterprises"-combining both the cultural traditions and the practical discipline of education- and "retaining the best features of each...