Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immigration Inspector, perhaps unconsciously, is attacking the entire system of higher education. Colleges do not exist for the purpose of storing a prescribed amount of knowledge in the heads of students. Their excuse for living lies in the fact that they are places where men, after an unhampered view of facts, can formulate unprejudiced ideas...
...knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school. So long as present requirements exist, the school must continue to prepare its students for college, instead of preparing them for life...
...have much the same labor difficulties as exist, in this country. The workingman is everywhere in the world dissatisfied with his lot. The difference in Japan is that we are seeking for a more humane solution of the problem than has been arrived at elsewhere. Here you have attempted to settle it from the materialistic standpoint alone, while in Japan our effort is to make the capitalist look at the labor question from the human standpoint. There must be a compromise between the two contending forces which will satisfy both and give neither an overwhelming advantage over the other...
...There is a brain beyond the individual brain of men which controls the world. For me the existence of the soul previous to and independent of the body wherein it it housed is a fact as indisputable as that the sun, moon, and stars exist. We shall some day find in nature marvelous processes of which we are at present unaware and these will give definite proof to the skeptical that the soul can never...