Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the Master said that, it could not possibly have seemed to be true . . . But today that insight of the Master comes to its own . . . Reliance on violence is self-defeating: war is suicidal, civilization itself cannot survive...
...partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite as sincere, intelligent and well informed as ourselves, perhaps familiar with aspects of the matter we know little about and gifted with a deeper insight. It is due in no small measure to prejudice which obscures our vision...
...Dravrah. The interval has been spent in observing these young men, the Satellities, who seem to hold the answer to this riddle of education which so puzzles me. I have employed my greatest tact and affability to win the confidence of the leading spirits among them. I have gained insight into features of their life which to a more outsider would remain forever impenetrable. I have watched, and noted, and thought; and my bewilderment increases...
...help to the student in his effort to master the difficulties. The use of translations is recommended by numerous educators. They deplore that a student's time should be wasted in eternal thumbing of vocabulary and grammer. The use of correct translations guarantees correct solution of idioms and quick insight into the sense...
...Darrow's harsh ideas concerning the method of education in American colleges doubtless contain a great deal of shrewd insight. What he recommends is practically a bodily transference of the English tutorial system to Harvard, but he falls to grasp the fact that such a change would be impractical and impossible here. If American preparatory schools measured up to the high standards of Eton and Rugby, then Mr. Darrow would be completely justified in his desire to see the practices of the great English universities speedily imported. But such an event would benefit only a small minority and would sound...