Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution of our melting pot problem is closely involved with this idea. Americanization is not to be learned from books. Teaching children a sense of co-operation is more valuable than any scheme that could be broached along those lines. The sacredness of the community should be taught in every day school life. There are three elements in democracy, so well expressed in the Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, of the French revolution. We have overstressed the first two. The war did bring out the last idea, but transiently. "We shall never realize our democracy," said Mr. Osborne, "until we recognize...
...These reports are followed up by short talks and discussions during the first period that a group of cooperative students returns to the school proper. This is for the purpose of bringing individual experiences into a "melting pot," where they may be modified in comparison with other viewpoints...
...institution of learning, are great assets. A great and loyal body of alumni scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land helps to explain the wide scope of Harvard's appeal. At any rate a freshman class recruited from 43 states ought to prove a pretty fair melting-pot of broad Americanism. --Boston Herald...
...elective system was made practically necessary by the huge expansion of the field of knowledge which took place in the nineteenth century. It was no longer possible to make any pretense that a four-year curriculum could supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above...