Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have recently come to the conclusion that the essence of Harvard pedagogy is to treat all students as a kind of clay to be shaped into some preconceived pattern, which according to the notion of the polite society is the most desirable and represents the best of manhood. It is difficult to define what is "the best"; but it is easy to see that this is the reason why there are so many lectures, prescribed readings, examinations, etc. The students on the whole are expected to be able to repeat what the professors have told them in the class...
...measure what their students make them. These men who teach us must be pedantic pedagogues, they always have been and will continue so. The child's tutor was so inhuman as to call him from his play to books; and the child persisting later finds his professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter, as feebly trying to curry...
...Mexico, and be a pronounced and innocuous pacifist in the World War, and yet be consistent in his own eyes and these of his followers. He may denounce the people who were blown up in the Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost unanimous choice and in monotonous regularity, reelected...
...Ghandi," he went on, "does not demand complete independence for his country, but merely home rule. He wants England to redress the wrongs which she has done, and to refrain from using Indian troops in foreign wars. Contrary to the popular notion, he does not favor violence as a means to his end. His own words are" 'I would rather give up may plans than use violence, because if violence is necessary, the time for Indian freedom is not yet here'. That, of course, is not the attitude of all India, but it is the felling of the great many...
...Encyclopedia and Bibliography, the general scope of literature and learning, and above all an understanding of library resources and classification and of how to gain access to them. It should give the student, as he begins his work here and makes his choices of roads to follow, a fair notion of the whole circumference that horizons...