Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...views on that subject are that the best education occupies a middle ground between old-fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...method for removal of this third cause (the lazy student)," the editorial points out, "is the removal of the first two causes plus an enticing array of travel folders--Sun Valley, Bermuda, Ste. Agathe des Monts--sent to these mental voids...
...headed by Owen D. Young) is the American Council on Education's American Youth Commission. It has spent its four years mainly in gathering facts and issuing reports such as its famed Youth Tell Their Story (TIME, June 6) on Youth's education, jobs, play, health, morals, mental attitude. Disheartened by such facts as an average two-year gap between school and job, the Commission has lately found fresh food for worry: increasing conflict between oldsters and youngsters, which is likely to divert to old age pensions public funds needed for Youth's education...
...showed them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...
...Archbishop Paul Bruchesi has been secluded in his palace since a mental breakdown 20 years...