Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates when practically every other activity in the College uses every known method except the baseball scout system to gather the innocents into the told...
...partisans of the McNary-Haugen bill. According to the farm dailies and the associations of stock and wheat growers, sympathy for this price-fixing measure is neither intense nor intelligent, while the Governor's call to arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout of the peasant revolt outside the smoke filled hotel room where the nocturnal setters-up of presidents are bartering...
...basic concept & method of Educator Dewey derives with brutal logic from a major premise, a definition. He postulates...
Pupils, then must be "encouraged to utilize their own peculiarities of response to subject matter." They must not learn by rote. In disparaging this latter method, which he finds still all too prevalent Dr. Dewey has said: "Much work in [an ordi-nary] school consists in setting up rules by which pupils are to act of such a sort that even after pupils have acted they are not led to see the connection between the result?say the answer?and the method pursued. So far as they are concerned, the whole thing is a trick and a kind of miracle...
...fruits of Professor Dewey's labors are to be seen, green or half ripened, in the more progressive elementary schools of America, Europe, and certain restricted areas of Asia. The great adventure still looming before the Second Confucius is to persuade fellow educators, parents and taxpayers that the "discovery method" can be applied to successively more advanced classes, and will.not degenerate under incompetent teachers into merely "letting the students do whatever they please...