Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will learn those are useful. But it surprises me that you have no fear. It is fundamental to living. You see, we scholars cannot exist wholly in the past any more. They have forbidden it. We must be alert to what is changing around us, even though we cannot understand. They have warned us that the world has come to a sharp turn, and they say even students must be ready for the careening. It's a hard blow, because we have spent so many delightful years in our towers. It's somewhat of a joke that...
...sometimes cool, many of you may be lonely for a while, But the process of orientation is primarily your own problem; to solve it, you must put yourself forward, give equally for what you take. Go to the Union and meet your fellow-classmen; walk about the Yard and learn the names of the various buildings; participate in the functions of Phillips Brooks House...
President Cárdenas once summed up his education program to a friendly Communist admirer from Manhattan thus : "The child must learn the secrets of Labor. . . . The child must be taught a sense of the collective. Reading and writing are sterile unless they are used socially. ... In most instances, the child's parents are both illiterate and individualistic. Our problem is to teach the child what he does not learn at home...
Psychology Professor Knight Dunlap, of the University of California at Los Angeles, last week made a proposal* shocking to many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
...James J. ("Father Jimmy") Tompkins. a plain, grizzled parish priest, persuaded St. Xavier University to branch into the field of adult education. Father Jimmy had studied the famed cooperatives begun in Rochdale, England a century ago, had organized Nova Scotian miners and fishermen into study groups to learn about cooperatives...