Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Incoherent judgments, philosophic misunderstanding, neglect of history, and practical omissions" are the charges levelled against "General Education in a Free Society" by Jacques Barzun, associate professor of History at Columbia University, in the current issue of "The Atlantic Monthly...
...neglect of history," Barzun means evidence collected at other colleges that Harvard has neglected the mass of which had already adopted some of the general courses and other features proposed in the Committee Report. Barzun considers this the Report's weakest point...
...serious educator can afford to neglect this study. Many educators may disagree with the conclusions of the Committee, but no one can find fault with their setting of the problems of education. I personally do not like their emphasis upon "tradition." If one chooses to be etymological and to cover by "tradition" whatever has been handed down from earlier ages, good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last...
...text of the statement, entitled "Human Nature and the Peace" is prefaced by the following remarks: "Humanity's demand for lasting peace leads us, as students of human nature, to assert ten pertinent and basic principles which should be considered in planning the peace. Neglect of them may breed new wars, no matter how well-intentioned our political leaders...
Asserting that the fundamental cause of this war is the neglect of a sound program of teaching racial equality, the association declared that the solution of the problem lies in the children of the coming generation. "Children are plastic; they will readily accept as symbols of unity as international way of thinking in which imperialism, prejudice, insecurity, and ignorance are minimized. In appealing to older people stress should be laid upon. . . better conditions and opportunities for children...