Word: notted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By last week the Denver Area Welfare Council, without whose approval no organization can get community chest funds, had recognized Laradon as a member. That was the first help Joe had had, but it might not be enough. "Sometimes when the going gets rough," says he, "I wonder if the...
How to Drive. He had not found it easy to study the writings of today's educators; most of them, says he, "sound as if they had been badly translated from the German." But out of them had emerged a picture in which Mortimer Smith found almost nothing he...
Inkspots & Removers. These unhappy trends, by Smith's analysis, have their beginnings in the teachers' colleges, where teachers are exposed to a thorough indoctrination of modern pedagogy, without which they could not hope for promotion ("Socrates himself would find it extremely difficult to be certified"). They waste valuable...
The Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should...
Concludes Mortimer Smith: "We have been going along now for some time on the theory that education consists simply of experience and change and 'growth,' and this theory has not... furthered the millennium to any startling degree. Perhaps we need to set up some ends for education; perhaps...