Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three of the vacancies are in the Military Intelligence section and seven in the photographic. The members of these aoctions will have an excellent opportunity to learn the rudiments of flying, as the Massachusetts Air Squadron has put nine planes at the disposal of the 26th Division Air Service for 15 to 20 hours a week...
...life a judicious compound of well remembered actions salted with a pinch of novelty may claim sustained attention. Unfortunately, Northerners know of Lee only such fragmentary crystals as remain from the precipitations of early education; Southerners know far more about Lee than any but a Southerner can ever learn...
...Education vs. Instruction. "It's a great error on the part of teachers to try to give their students instruction. The days of instruction are numbered. You can't teach young men of college age. But you can give them an opportunity to learn...
...Intellectual Parasites. " It's amazing how dependent our young Americans are in intellectual matters. They're anxious to find people in college who will tell them what to think, and they're quite glad to learn. Most of the graduates of our colleges don't read, and haven't any idea of books...
...this book is set forth very clearly the doctrines of restraint, good taste, and rounded living that are, of all that Greece produced, of the most use to us today. Sometimes one feels that we are hearing a little too learned a disquisition of the Republic of Plato, or of Aristotle's more abstract theories, but such moments are well balanced by detailed and very interesting descriptions of the practical, lived philosophy of the everyday Greek. And much of this is material that the average course of instruction, for instance, does not bother to tell us. Thus a whole section...