Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration's recovery plans. Naturally, all those who read his words had hopes of finding out the reasons for his refusal to sign the NRA code, and for his generally uncooperative attitude toward the government. These reasons were not given: Mr. Ford expressed himself heartily in accord with the "ideal behind the NRA"; he added that the present efforts were, although crude, a start in the right direction. "Why should we be opposed to the NRA," cried the great manufacturer; "President Roosevelt is only trying to make industry do what we were doing twenty years...
...state by the time of Harvard's tercentennial celebration in 1936. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison puts forth the more ambitious proposal that the Georgian beauty of Harvard Hall as it existed in the eighteenth century be restored by means of rather extensive alterations. While the latter project might be ideal, it would undoubtedly be more expensive, in addition to depriving the College of much-needed class rooms...
...Education joined to research is ideal education. Old pedagogical methods are out of date. We know now that a student is not a vessel into which refined and clarified wisdom may be poured. Rather, a great deal of refining and clarifying must be done in the student's own mind. We have discovered that education is not passive but active; that a lesson learned by rote is a lesson forgot. Methods of education of the older generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew...
...continuance is to be found, I think, in the vague rumors that seep out of both countries about popular discontent with the governments. Obviously, if the rabble are occupied in the jingoistic activities that accompany a war, their rulers will feel relatively safe. Consequently, the Chaco is an ideal place to wage such a war, for defeat and loss of such a God-forsaken region can have no very serious results for either country...
...high price; the second rests on the elimination of the profit motive from production. The first overlooks the fact of technological unemployment, and postulates that machine growth which makes total and paid employment an impossibility, can run parallel to government control which makes total and paid employment an ideal; the second is based on technological unemployment, and on the gradual reduction of labor which machine development will bring...