Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working day will be used for acquiring that amount of knowledge which brands him an educated man. So inhuman are most of those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly; it is natural that he approach a new idea in a slow, roundabout fashion, appraising and rationalizing as he goes...
...settling down to four years at Harvard it would be wise if the Freshman included in his academic schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part...
...Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the mid-year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...
...Benes (see p. 19) as "a model of what a public utterance should be," denounced No. 2 Nazi Göring for making at Nürnberg (see p. 19) what the London Times called "the speech of a bully whose fury makes even sympathizers with the German case forget whatever there is in that case for legitimate sympathy...
...days before the Diaspora (the dispersal from Palestine), the Jews were a dancing people. As they wandered over the face of the earth they took up the dances of other nations, forgot their own. But one small group of about 3,000 Jews did not forget: the Yemenite Jews* who, driven from Jerusalem by the Roman conquerors in 132 A. D., settled in a corner of southwestern Arabia, where they have carried the traditions of Old Testament life down to the present...