Word: piperisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Courage & Joy. Pestalozzi gave a lifetime to learning the lessons that he taught, and many of them he learned from children in the first place. He began taking youngsters into his home even before he had a real school, gathering them, Pied-Piper fashion, every time he went out for a stroll. He bathed and fed them, taught them to spin and weave, read and write, sing and draw. He never flogged or goaded them, taught as much with his heart as with his head. "Learning," said Pestalozzi, "is not worth a penny when courage and joy are lost along...
...Absentee Pied Piper...
...industrial revolution, of a few nations could achieve it. But the techniques of mass production unleashed by the Americans 40 years ago prom ise comfort for all-and the promise is an honest one, technically redeemable. This promise runs through the world (especially through Asia) like a Pied Piper, leading men to drop ancient ways of life and follow it. But the American is not on the ground to organize the energy released by this promise. Neither hope of profit nor love of domination takes the American to the spot. He is content to be a Pied Piper on television...
...Communist, however, is on the ground; he leads those lured by the absentee Pied Piper back to misery and slavery...
...without meaning to, has let loose the most dynamic force in the world. The U.S. cannot silence the Pied Piper of progress. It can only try to redeem the promise of his pipes...