Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...
...action was openly selfish and materialistic: private gain or personal comfort was the end desired. This materialistic motive pervades all human society at the present time; it lies at the heart of the social problem. Unfortunately, the evil is a difficult one to remedy; an easier and more effective method is to prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education "a frank striving for money?" I do not. Does Mr. Lazarus think that military and economic warfare can be averted in the future by the development of the instinct...
...take an outline map and to mark off upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian, a Czech, a Polish, a Greek and an Armenian state, it is not so easy to put this division into effect or to justify it as a method for permanently quelling the periodic outbreaks of war in Europe...
...Archbishop's mission in this country is to help bind more firmly the ties of close relationship between the United States and Great Britain. Our sympathy for his country has been steadily growing; England could have chosen no better method of increasing it still further than by sending here a man who so eminently represents the best of her traditions. He has the confidence of the King and of the Government, and what he says can be taken as authoritative. In addition, he is a most excellent speaker...
...future must be paid to the holders of bonds. In so far a burden is placed upon the next generation. Non-bondholders will be forced to pay up just what bondholders will receive. Some obligation for the future is inevitable. But although Liberty Bonds are a convenient method of financing the war, they fortunately go far from accomplishing that ignoble "shifting of the burden," for the real burdens are being borne now. Buy Liberty Bonds because of those things for which they stand, but avoid the illusion of a theory which is as untrue as it is lacking...