Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best learn those facts which he must know in order to generalize? certainly not through a survey of his entire field under the guidance of a tutor. Only through the medium of courses, dealing with single phases of study, will the student best acquire that fundamental knowledge of details which is essential to the best development and cultivation of the mind. Only through them can he discipline his mind so that he may best grapple with the problems of life. The two systems, though totally different in principle, may be so adjusted that they will form a consistent whole, embodying...
This year, the clothing industry shivered with excitement to learn that there was "a slight increase in Panamas"; bent with furrowed brow over the batting averages, precise as logarithms, computed by the scouts...
This waste in modern education Professor Wood regards as abnormal and unnecessary. He claims that the first duty of the educator is not to teach, but to learn; to learn what the student can learn, to discover what he should try to learn and how he may be most efficaciously helped to learn. The point is not new. Educators have always spent a large part of their time in fulfilling their "first duty." Much has been accomplished, and with the development of the fields of education and psychology, much greater advances may be surely predicted...
...significance of it all is that there exists a dissatisfaction, partially chronic but entirely justified, as to the present status of Education at Harvard. The teaching staff, remembering its own sacrifices for an education, is likely to regard the absence of the will to learn on the part of the undergraduate as the fundamental factor vitiating an otherwise fairly efficient and adaptable educational system. On the other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign...
Page 7, your issue of Mar". 23, "Prince's Trip," we learn that "on Mar 28 H. M. S. Repulse will dip the Prince of Wales standard ... as she casts anchor and moves with silent, increasing speed...