Word: parrot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...passing of a large number of required subjects, the quantities and degree of advancement of each carefully set down in black and white. The more fortunate youths go to tutoring schools where they learn by heart answers to probable questions. In what way does this differ from a parrot learning the alphabet? Those of us who spent four years in acquiring the "canned education" necessary for admission to college would like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will...
...Edward Abeles as Dr. Rokoro, though he has little acting to do in a physical way, wins us to him with his parrot-like, clipped English--by his primitive, direct philosophy...
...better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English boys reveal at once the habit of clear thought to which their education has trained them. We must investigate their system and adopt...
Through the efforts of the Yard police rifled goods are often recovered and this is especially true in the case of bicycles. The theft of these is sometimes resorted to by more or less desperate characters; one of these was recently captured after a long chase. The Yard parrot not only shows its efficiency in this director but it has been most successful in the rounding up of practical jokers. The patrol is hindered by the lack of undergraduate co-operation and considering that in the end the students are the victims, they should give more attention to this matter...
...qualified to profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus...