Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer recently delivered an address from the Newark, N. J. station of the Westing house Company and it was estimated that he spoke to an audience of at least twenty five thousand persons. The thing has so gotten hold of the lay public, who never would learn the dot and dash code of telegraphy, that at the present time it is almost impossible to buy a receiving set. The demand for them will be met, however, as is invariably the case in such matters, and there is every reason to believe that in a few years a wireless receiver will...
...learn without warning that our predecessors played boyish pranks, dodged an education, and generally mistreated the glorious manhood of sideburns. Rumours of such things had previously reached our ears, but somehow we had failed to connect them officially with these portrait ancestors. And now we do not know whether to thank the Dean for his compliment, or to deplore his shattering of our beliefs. Incidentally, to return a Roland for an Oliver, the wisdom of the whole disclosure might be questioned; for, having no longer the respect of the shades to hold us down, to what lengths of frivolity might...
President Lowell's report offers an abundance of food for thought. His remarks on educational methods, while less startling than other topics, offer some sound suggestions. Concretely, they are a defence of the old method of teaching by problem rather than by precept. "We learn to do by doing," he says. A degree of self-service in education is often of far more value than an equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable...
...examples which President Lowell cites--arithmetic, physics, the classic languages--may seem to apply more directly to elementary education. In fact his whole argument is a suggestion for teaching children how to learn, rather than teaching them the objects of that learning. This, one may argue, is the purpose of primary and preparatory education, and should be regarded as a prerequisite, to college. When a student enters college, it might he supposed that he knows how to study, and that college is the place for him to apply such knowledge...
...learn to hold the javelin in balance and in proper position, and to carry the arm and hand gracefully behind the shoulders requires constant practice (hence the "Looking Glass Exercise" as directed in practice). The javelin is so long and heavy that it very easily falls out of balance in straightening the arm behind the shoulder...