Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearing or reading; the visual minds learns by seeing; and the motor minds learns by doing. The present system of education completely overlooks the third type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages more easily than mathematics, and therefore recommends early specialization, he does not provide for the man whose mind is not adapted to book-learning...