Word: half-truth
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...effect that jobs would be assured only to men in the upper tenth of the senior class. By implication it was further stated that the other nine-tenths would waste time by registering with the Placement Office. The absurdity of both contentions should be apparent, but there is a half-truth here which demands explanation...
...Legong begins where Sally Rand leaves off," said a New York columnist, stating a half-truth. For the current film at the Fine Arts is scarcely reminiscent of Sally Rand, despite the abbreviated native costumes...
...been said that nothing can be taught. This is but a half-truth, for unquestionably the ability to stimulate the novice is the mission of the teacher. Without that ability the instructor is but a pedagogue...
Someone has characterized the American Public Educational System as an institution "devoted to the glorification of the mediocre and to the perpetuation of convenient half-truth." The author of this statement might have gone further. He might have railed against the politician who makes these things possible and necessary, he might have castigated the inert combination of cynicism on the high side, and of saccharine ignorance on the low, a combination which in turn makes the politician possible and necessary. And if asked for a demonstration, he might have turned to the evidence which Dean Holmes presented in the Massachusetts...
...anything describable as thought, we laugh at the politician who mouths glibly that only through more extensive public education can America advance; it is a tragically ridiculous doctrine, it is a smirking dodge. Just so long as politicians control education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened...