Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from being an apologist for eastern methods, Mr. Tunis offers for examination two educational systems exactly opposite in their ideals. By his juxtaposition and treatment of his subjects he intimates that one is as undesirable as the other, that the ideal university should not be characterized either by scholasticism or by modernism alone, but by a close correlation of the two. He adds weight to the recent lament of John Erskine in the "American Scholar" that colleges make no attempt to vitalize their inanimate culture with injections of modernity...
...contagious effect on the attitude of smaller colleges. But in general, it may be said, that their position is far less discouraging than that of the western university described by Mr. Tunis. For they, unlike Western universities, possess the tradition, cultural curriculum and modern equipment on which the ideal mean must necessarily be based...
...general scrutiny of accepted values. Henry Suzzalo, President of the Carnegie Foundation, in putting secondary education on trial has stated a problem confronting both school and college. The purpose, as he sees it, of the education of tomorrow is to prepare a social man for a social system. The ideal of the individual triumphing personally in rigorous competition must be abandoned and in its place must come the altruistic citizen whose concern is to further the group of which he is a member...
...order to realize this ideal, Mr. Suzzalo wishes to "democratize" the process of education and to develop the "whole personality of little men and women." If, by "democratize," he means to make no distinction between individuals but to give each scholar the opportunities offered his neighbor, then the principle is full of danger. The success which the generation now in schools and colleges is to have in the ordering of a chaotic world largely depends on the ability of this educational system to produce leaders. It is not enough to offer all men a mediocre training, those with ability must...
...entire theatre is built with a view of providing the utmost in comfort and artistic arrangement, as well as providing ideal acoustic conditions for talking pictures. The outside is built in the modernistic style with graduated lines and sweeping length of contour, while the inside is furnished in a truly oriental manner, with lavish furnishings and chromium-plated fixtures...