Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weisbord's recent threat to call a strike of school children unless the officers abandon Cossack methods is an example of the mental position which have led to stern riots and sterner repressions. For the moment one wonder at this unreasonable boycott which would harm the laborer more than the capitalist. The heat of strife has blinded the leader, who is himself a product of higher education, in the permanent avenue of escape for his followers offered by intelligent preparation for solving problems...
...Houghton's "spokesman" interview roused the Senator from Mississippi to fury because Mr. Houghton allegedly said a great many desperately important things, if they are true, which the Senator felt the Administration should either stand behind or keep secret. Cried Senator Harrison: "There is no one who does harm and injury that can be condemned more than the assassin who conceals himself behind some bush and fires unnoticed the shot into the back of the passing victim...
Disease of or accident to any of these centres in the brain affects the part of the body in correspondence. Harm to a part of the right hemisphere influences, in general, the left side of the body; and vice versa. The phenomenon occurs because the bundled nerves which carry messages from the two sides of the body cross each other at the entrance to the skull...
...passed urging all schools to install radios, "the most effective means now at hand to bring about desirable changes." A speech: Simplify marking systems so that parents can understand. Another speech: Do not classify children into groups, into "mutt classes," "dumbbells," "morons;" "low I. Q.'s" (Intelligence Quotient). "Incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing inferiority complexes." Another speech: Since the advent of the "junior high school" (seventh to tenth grades), the fourth and fifth grades have been a "dumping ground" for inferior teachers, the best teachers being concentrated in kindergarten work and in the new junior-high...
These are compensations, but they should not blind us to the fact that there is, as President Angell delouse a "retardation" which "inheres in the whole educational system from top to bottom." There would be comparatively little harm in waste of time if time were the only thing lost. But too slow a pace breeds habits of idleness, or, rather, prevents the formation of habits of work at the time when these habits can be most painlessly and fruitfully acquired...