Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...known fact that children in the same families and men in the same factories exhibit great diversity in scope of power. Democracy is not equality of all men, but equality of opportunity. No artificial restrictions should limit any man's power. Let the president hold his position through his inborn capacity, let the laborer be such through inability to rise. Freedom of opportunity is the ideal to be fought...
...results of the free elective system at Harvard. This system, he said, has proved in many ways, unsatisfactory. President Eliot, in his inaugural address expressed the hope that by means of the free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg...