Word: goodhart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goodhart's citation read: "An American from Oxford whose scholarship has brought new vitality to the history and philosophy...
Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College of Oxford, told a gathering of grad school alumni yesterday that American undergraduates, compared with continental undergraduates, were "intellectually immature and underdeveloped...
Each was awarded a Doctor of Laws as were Robert F. Goheen, Princeton president-elect, Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College, Oxford, and Devereux C. Josephs '15, Chairman of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School...
...attributed this to two factors: first, the low standards in American high schools, caused by the belief that "education can be acquired without discipline"; second, the gramophone-record type of education," which made knowledge a substitute for thought. Goodhart saw this trend in recent quiz contests, of which he claimed, "The more useless the information, the more admiration its possessor inspires...
...Goodhart, Knight Commander of the British Empire, is an authority on English Law and its philosophy. He is an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and the author of a number of books on legal subjects. A native of New York, he holds degrees from Yale and Cambridge Universities...