Word: implanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lauded U. S. intervention, thereby pleasing many of his constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...
Instead of so airy and fragile an educative purpose, about as comprehensible as pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...
...choice of the opening wedge should, however, be made with the greatest care. "You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". Forcefully to implant the recalcitrant lad in the midst of a pile of "classics" is likely to be fatal. He must be nursed along from old tastes to new. There are, fortunately, plenty of books possessing the intensity of action of the "dime novel" together with that cleverness of style which somehow creates an atmosphere of reality lacking in the latter. Men like Kipling, Mark Twain, and, above all, Stevenson will almost infallibly...
...Socialists are striking at the foundation of Americanism when they attempt to implant their Utoplan theories in the immature minds of the young men and young women in the colleges and universities of America," said Charles D. Orth, President of the National Security League, "Institutions of learning are established primarily for the dissemination of knowledge, which is acquaintance with fact and not with theory...