Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Logic a la Conant: the Amalgamated Association of Dairymen and Pharmacists is deeply concerned with the rising undemocratic practice of breast feeding. Whereas it is admitted that in most cases the standard formula product is somewhat inferior to the natural milk, still the practice is considered highly detrimental to the unity of our society, even though those guilty are still assessed their pro rata share of the general tax on lactic feeding...
Third, there is the accusation that public schools are preaching a materialist philosophy. If they were, we would oppose such an action just as strongly as we oppose encouraging religion by means of public school machinery. But the logic in suggesting that the absence of one philosophy necessarily means the presence of another escapes us. In fact, it would be a great surprise to find that secondary education, which after all deals with elementary subjects, deals with so large and advanced a topic as philosophy of life at all. One can teach English, Mathematics, Languages, History and so on without...
...issued last fall by the Nationel Planning Association emphasized need for unrestricted educational gift "Existing tax incentives are hasten this process," it predicted, "The timid (companies) will evidently be judged the five-percent programs of their more energetic competitors and, in time, they too will be compelled by the logic of the situation to reappraise their own five-percent expenditures...
...arbitrary system of course credits which "implies that the educational value of typewriting, for example, is equivalent to that of calculus, literature or logic...
...includes tests on number facility, inductive reasoning with number material, spatial relations, non-verbal reasoning, verbal logic, rote memory, verbal fluency and mechanical reasoning. Each student is given a score for each one of the 21 aptitudes...