Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying that TIME was confused about liberals, my apologies. TIME. I see by your letters, was only mirroring truthfully the appalling confusion that exists in the minds of the U. S. public. Twenty-eight correspondents say that Roosevelt is not a liberal; I am astonished to learn that 28 people intelligent enough to be able to write should hold to such an error. What do they think he is? A conservative? A radical? A revolutionist? A fascist? What nonsense! A radical, as everybody but your correspondents knows, is a man who proposes drastic changes in the status...
Under Packard the men and women students will learn dramatic interpretation and vocal expression, as well as the principles of stage action. Rehearsals will be held with Shakespearian scenes as models...
...workers chose not to be represented by a union. It is no longer fashionable to be at the mercy of even a benevolent employer. The University should be glad that its employee relations are once more in tune with the times; and undergraduates, the indirect employers, will have to learn at first hand that important economic lesson that efficiency, high standards, and contented employees cost money--and are worth...
...Prescott and his colleagues found human emotions a largely unmapped wilderness, its few known contours indicating that feeling's springs feed learning's river. Thus, whether an individual learns anything depends a great deal on whether he has a motive for learning it. One significant test showed that people learn pleasant words most efficiently, unpleasant ones less easily and words about which they are indifferent least efficiently...
...fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most prominent mental characteristic" of western civilization. Dr. Prescott found that by & large even the schools create tensions in children, by regimentation, by making them read before they are ready to learn to read, by giving them too many doses of failure...