Word: enriching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Play, Less Reading. "By stuffing within school walls three times as many things for pupils 'to do' we do not necessarily enrich the life of the pupil three times. . . . The unfortunate outcome of this circus type of school is that pupils think of study as inconsequential to the educational process...
...Conant is a chemist. He should know from what test tube to conjure the formula that would preserve, diffuse and, for the average wayfarer in his hostelry, enrich the meaning of all this loveliness. Why not, from Mr. Conant's laboratory, a Harvard College course on New England? A course that would give the newcomer the feel of his temporary home, and with it, a microcosm against which to measure the world...
...foreign countries work for the public is regarded as a great honor. In China to be a government official is to find out the best way to enrich oneself. People in other countries call their officials public servants, but [in China] to become an official is the quickest way to make money...
Your issue of July 23 contains these words about Ecuador: ". . . looted for centuries by 'practical' rulers." Allow me to protest. You have been badly misinformed. Not a single president or dictator in my country has taken advantage of his position to enrich himself. Every one of them . . . has been an honest man. Dr. Velasco Ibarra, indeed, speaks frequently about graft from his predecessors as a political trick to impress the mob. It is one of his many low political tricks...
...alone might well fill our graduate schools of arts and sciences unless we are on guard. But from such a crop few professors will develop who can nourish and inspire the students one and two decades hence. From such a group few original investigators or scholars will arise to enrich the stream of civilization by their discoveries and their thoughts...