Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...worst thing about the Student Council is that the undergraduates who elected it have shown no respect for their own handiwork. The requests that men shall not cut on the days of games have been ignored by 1215 men in the last three Saturdays...
...determining the different phases of the subject upon which greater or less stress should be placed; of selecting more than a score of authors to whom the compilation of the individual volumes has been entrusted; and of coordinating the whole into a homogeneous unit. Efforts to fuse together the handiwork of several literary craftsmen have not as a rule been wholly satisfactory: the outcome has too often been an encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty to have the various links...
...preparation for a narrow and personal success, and with danger of giving him ideas on the subject that are radically wrong. Life has many activities, and men should be educated to take an intelligent interest in political and educational problems. "We are specialists," says Professor Munsterberg, "in our handiwork, but our heart-work, is uniform, and the demand for individualized education ignores the great similarities." The system of education which produces this uniformity of interests must be under the direction of an experienced faculty. Such a system is being organized at Princeton, and already exists in slightly altered forms...
...playing the double role of a place for general education and a workshop for professional training, but at least the high school ought to be faithful to its only goal of general education without professional anticipations. The division of labor lies on the outside; we are specialists in our handiwork, but our heart-work is uniform, and the demand for individualized education emphasizes the small differences in our tasks, and ignores the great similarities. And finally, who is able to say what a boy of twelve years will need for his individual life's work...