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Word: methodism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express my thanks for the mental gymnastics provided by your current events test? It has served to "jack me up" on my perusal of TIME. Of late I had neglected the cover-to-cover method usually followed, and the test caught me on things I should have known. Incidentally, my latest issue has my fingerprints on every page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1935 | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would be a terror, trusted that the people would rise against him and restore the Republic. His part played, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Claudius (Cont'd) | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

During the past two years, the Institute of School Experimentation, backed by the General Education Board, has conducted an intensive study of the comparative successes of progressive and "old type" methods of education in high school. The result has been overwhelmingly favorable to the progressive method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION | 3/28/1935 | See Source »

Identical tests were given to students who had been educated in each way. Sixteen high-school subjects were tested, and in only two subjects was the old method of teaching as successful as the now. The scores for the two methods were even in American History, and in intermediate Algebra the old school surpassed greatly. But in all the Sciences, in composition and literature, in all the languages, including Latin, and in all the Mathematics but intermediate Algebra, there was a large percentage difference in favor of progressively taught pupils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION | 3/28/1935 | See Source »

Theoretical attacks on the progressive method of education must collapse in face of such overwhelming statistical evidence. There is still room for doubt in individual cases. There is still room for doubt in application to other fields of education but the high school. One cannot use clay models in college. But the report of the Institute of School Experimentation is conclusive proof that progressive education is on the right track. Let us hope that nostalgia won't prevent its advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION | 3/28/1935 | See Source »

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