Word: fetishism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illiterate in this state, there is some need for such an institution. But it must be remembered that the old liberal arts college and the large endowed university have a precious place in the educational life of America, a place which vocational training does not attempt to fulfill. The fetish of size in education is fatal and the idea that colleges are for all is impossible. Thousands would not know what to do if they had the benefits of expensive higher training. Furthermore, state education, by no means implies free education, since only the tuition-- but a minor item...
...Boston Transcript sums up the matter in a single sentence: "The fetish of size, in education, is a fatal one." The purpose of a university is not alone to instruct and inspire the greatest number but also to make that instruction effective. The loss of the personal touch in education cannot be counterbalanced by the fact that a greater number of students are being taught...
Public opinion should be awakened at once to the fact that the practical politician class, that is, those who consider every public interest with reference to the personal interest, now hold but a small balance of power, however fiercely they may appeal to the fetish of their obsolescent party creeds; that now is the opportunity to discuss real issues, and that now public opinion may do, if it will, the one thing most needed by demanding for the leadership of the nation knowledge proved by experience, coupled with powers educated and strengthened in successful achievement...