Word: kallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kallen of the New School for Social Research will speak on "Palestine and Russia...
...twentieth anniversary of the founding of the society, is the first year since 1916 that the Menorah Society has gone upon the stage. Ten years ago it gave a play in Jordan Hall called "The Book of Job", which was restored as a Greek tragedy by Dr. H. M. Kallen...
...school system is an labor-factory", says Dr. Kallen in the current "New Republic". After much erudite writing on the origins of schools, he concludes that the present school system, colleges included, exists solely ot perpetuate the status quo in economics and religion, and to make docile workers out of the children of workers...
...Kallen states as his belief: "If education has established habits of such a sort that no claim to authority can be acknowledge before it has made itself good, and none can be rejected until it (i.e. the claim) has failed to make good, the function of education in a democratic community has been served; freedom has been safeguarded." Immediately afterwards he questions whether this rather cumbersomely expressed ideal will ever be realized. He fears that the complex organization imposed on the American educational system kills the spirit of independent inquiry. This picture is indeed repulsive; unfortunately...
...study of origins, however, will not cure the evil; it must be met by stricter classification of schools into technical and cultural, and by increased financial support. The abject resignation of Dr. Kallen and others will accomplish nothing...