Word: mental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...educational system, seeing in its products too many defects for any hope of accomplished perfection often forget completely the necessity for strong and capable direction in primary and secondary school work. There is far too little known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than intelligent...
...current "Time" carries the announcement by President Faunce that Brown students will in the future have to undergo, not only a physical examination, but a mental and emotional inspection also. "Hundreds of students" says Dr. Faunce, "are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." This ought to be a platitude. And to seek a remedy for introspective unbalance is to attempt to control what ordinarily, like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle...
...education and in life generally, the naked idea of professional and ordered treatment for mental as for bodily ills is sound. The scientific spirit dictates that manias and complexes have discoverable causes as truly as cramps and aches. But the challenge of science is now directed chiefly at the theorists and experimenters. And whatever their pretense, practitioners must be classed in the latter category...
Inverting a famed trade slogan, Dr. Faunce declared: "Hundreds of American students are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." The appointment of "the best men in the medical profession" was expected to save unbalanced Brown students from the tender mercies of the psychiatrist, from whose diagnoses amateur introspectors have been known to derive harmful results, trying to "live up to their characteristics...
...bleachers while experts exercise Everyone has experienced the thrill of a home run or a touch-down made by another. Much may be said for this division of labor which permits complacent persons the joy of combat at the cost of purely optical exercise. By a simple mental translation, the spectator becomes himself the hero of the hour...