Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions come to the mind of a commentator. The first asks who is responsible for the trend. One answer is that the attempt to educate men regardless of capabilities leads naturally to the adoption of quickly attainable objectives, that administrators of public systems are well aware of this despair of convincing the generality of people that the indeterminate paths of learning are worth travelling, and therefore succumb, that politicians aid and abet all moves to make education practical because most electors are practical-minded...
...task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge of one thing in its truest light involves knowing many things, and may retain, as its province likewise, the duty of giving asylum to the speculative mind and a more protecting harbor than even highly experimental industries can give to the scientific mind in its most abstract researches...
...interest you to know our own great journalist S. S. McClure is in Italy for the purpose of making a thorough study of the present government. He said to me: "The civilization which is now being developed in Italy is the greatest ever conceived in the mind of man." He is personally going to investigate the "Italian Siberia." He will go to these penal islands. Mrs. Jackson Flemming, the popular current history lecturer, said in my drawing-room: "The government Mussolini is developing is so modern we Americans are not able to understand it; we are not educated...
...many cases that benign tutors have been careful in tending to the matter and that there will be no radical change, for one should in theory be able to derive as much information from Aristotie when the temperature is at 90 as when it records a modest 50. The mind is what one makes it--if one is so minded...
...very fine but it has little to do with his scholastic success in college. He must eventually learn, however, that reading with or without an incentive is seldom quite barren of results. Even in August an afternoon spent looking at a book must leave some impression on the mind, the exact permancy being determined by the book which gives and the mind which receives the impression. Therefore the slogan "For Recreation Read The Best" is, in spite of its being a slogan, sound advice...