Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...know how great a change this will be in my life here. When a man has been in one work for forty years with one ideal, it is a great change to find he can no longer work officially for that ideal. It does not, however, change his love, and I expect to have many opportunities to testify to this love. I hope you don't think the change in administration means that the ideals of the University will change. Its ideals will remain the same and I hope your love will also remain. It is a great thing...
Many striking quotations from President Eliot's writings show that his policy has been inspired from the beginning by a singularly clear and comprehensive ideal of what education should be in a democracy. It should be open to all, it should foster individuality, it should produce experts and respect for experts, it should secure co-operation, and it should stimulate public spirit. These quotations from President Eliot, expressing his profound faith in a democratic society trained and enlightened as he would have it, are, I think, what will strike German readers most in the articles. They are also what will...
...mankind, at least for all civilized mankind who have reached a highly organized state of civilization. That is what Japan had, a highly organized state of civilization, long before we had. It is wrong to hope that all nations oughtto be alike, that is not the real democratic ideal; the real democratic ideal is immense diversity...
...great problem of modern society is to find the individual place and ideal for the menial laborer whose life has become simply a cog in some great industrial machine. Machinery should not subordinate humanity. This is the great evil of modern democracy, caused by the tendency to regard labor, not as a pleasure which fortunately affords a livelihood, but as a means of obtaining money alone...
...impossible to picture the kind of life with which we would be perfectly satisfied. By Heaven we mean that ultimate end of human endeavor which we hope to be good; it lies beyond death; it is that elusive ideal of which we are forever in quest. Another great question is whether the soul is conscious in after life of its former existence...