Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is important to realize is that, while in thousands of particulars one's pre-university knowledge may be awry and should be reformed, while the birth of a healthy scepticism is the priceless gift of higher education, by the time a man enters college, in nine cases out of...
Four years in college should open the mind to vistas hitherto unexplored, and broaden the intellectual horizon to an extent unachievable elsewhere. But in the realms served by heredity, environment, and upbringing, where education has little influence, the individual must go his own way, and attempt to solve the age...
Dr. Kanner urges parents to be patient with bothersome children, to tell them all the truth they can understand, to lie never, to beat them never, to show them a composed, orderly example ever. If a parent provides such a common sense environment for his child to grow up in...
Cooling off, the "insurgents" returned to the issue of Academic Freedom, framed a careful resolution. They proposed that NEA set up a committee of five-three of them classroom teachers. The committee would investigate dismissals of capable teachers, might even go to court to aid them; would fight such legislation...
¶Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of...