Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecture delivered before the Harvard Teachers Association Saturday, Professor R. B. Perry '97 subjected the question of the instruction of school children to pschycological analysis. He first called attention to the general educational opinion of the day, that there must be a shift from purely intellectual to moral instruction. The importance of moral education is seen in the fact that moral education is seen in the fact that moral education is seen in the fact that ideals, to gain which he must see clearly the general end of his life's activities. "We are likely to forget we are human...
...analysis of the resources for moral instruction is then the central question of modern education. There is in human nature a deep stratum, underlying the results of training. A rich manifold of instinct, containing the material from which good or bad conduct may evolve. This manifold of instinct is plastic and may be moulded, so that from nature arises second nature. The instinct of pugnacity may be transformed into a desire to fight for good...
...other words, a study of the question leads one to infer that an important factor in the solution of the above figures is the larger appreciation of the influence of the physical upon the mental and the moral which is resulting in increased facilities for physical development...
...retain the Philippines at all costs. The military, political, economic and moral advantages have been duly paraded, but here is a stronger argument than any yet brought before the public: Think of the loss to American literature if that romantic tropical colony passed out of our control! Where else could a noble American officer parade through a jungle in a yellow wig and a ballet skirt for the love of a heroine named Inez, and brave a villain named Morang, and go through savage ceremonies with bolos and nipa and tuba and other atmospheric perils, finally to be buried...
...Lecture (in German) Christentum and Hellenismus XII. Das Fraugelium als uralte Offenbarung und als vernunftige Moral," by Professor Ernst von Dobschuts, in Emerson...