Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools try to accomplish too much and as a result achieve nothing well. "What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind; not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought...
...make education attractive, there has been of late a tendency to make it too easy. "Repeated mental exertion becomes a habit, one of the most valuable a man can possess. In fact the habit of overcoming obstacles is a large factor in the condition of mind that is properly called education; for the quantity of knowledge obtained when one leaves school is far less important than the ability to acquire knowledge and to think clearly on hard problems...
With his heavy Scotch brows knit in a worried frown, James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924), proposed, last week, legal protection for the British public against the mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers...
Well might Scot MacDonald cry out last week against mind-moulding and throat-cutting which is sure to weaken the Labor party...
Soon it appeared that only small fry have been jailed. Still at liberty in Colmar is that master mind of pro-German plotters in Alsace, the notorious Abbé Haegy. A tall, ascetic priest, with cold eyes, thin lips and eloquently gesturing hands, he was busy last week personally editing his pro-German newspaper, while several members of its staff languish in jail...