Word: nock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical training for useful pursuits-was violently anathematized a year ago, and again last month, by Dr. Abraham Flexner (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930; Dec. 14). From another educator last week came similar but more polite strictures in The Theory of Education in the U. S., by Albert Jay Nock (Harcourt, Brace: $2). But Dr. Nock, unlike Dr. Flexner, is a cordial admirer of President Butler, a graduate (1892) of Columbia's offspring, St. Stephen's College at Annadale-on-Hudson, N. Y., where he is now visiting professor of U. S. history and politics.- Dr. Nock...
Equality, Democracy, Literacy, says Professor Nock, are the bases of U. S. education-all of them misinterpreted today. Equality, to the masses, means that all people are educable. Democrat Thomas Jefferson realized that this is not so when he planned 20 grammar schools in Virginia, in each of which only one student per class would be allowed to remain a full six years, so that "20 of the best geniuses shall be raked from the rubbish annually." Out of these 20, only ten would be allowed to go to William & Mary College. But the Jefferson plan was not followed...
Democracy and literacy, as popularly conceived, have nothing to do with education. Democracy, says Professor Nock, "must aim at no ideals above those of the average man. ..." A 100% literate populace, creditable as an ideal, is of no use if the literates read nothing but the "garbage shot upon the public from the presses of the country...
Well remembered by radicals is the "old" Freeman edited by Albert Jay Nock. It kept a circulation of about 10,000 until 1924, when Mrs. Francis Neilson decided that she could play "angel" no longer. Last year the magazine was revived as The New Freeman by Peter Fireman, a Russian-born chemist who came to the U. S. 49 years ago and amassed moderate wealth in the paint business (Magnetic Pigment Co. of Trenton...
...Fine Arts; George David Birkhoff '40, Professor of Mathematics, and Tutor in the Division of Mathematics; Thomas Barbour '60, Professor of Zoology, Di- rector of the University Museum and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Clarence 'Henry Haring '07, Professor of Latin-American History and Economics: Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion...