Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endeavor seems to have been to make it not an organization for unbiased inquiry on the facts, but one for preparing such recommendations as are known in advance to be acceptable to the party and the Administration in power...
...tennis-player for training himself with a view to winning a match, instead of acquiring skill in the game would be absurd, because the two things are the same. If marks in examinations do not measure accurately comprehension of the subject as taught in the course and the power to handle it, the instructor is at fault, for his examination does not measure what it should...
...salient fact stands out that a superficial knowledge embracing many facts which one cannot hope to retain is more profitable than a modest and a sounder one. When the examination impends there is no longer time to think, only to memorize. That examinations test memory rather than mental power is the most cogent criticism against them...
...position of the Labor Party in England at the present time, Colonel Wedgewood gave the following prophecy: "The Labor Party will not come back to power for ten years and thereafter will be the alternate in the administration of England during the next 50 years. At present there are 400 Conservatives and 150 Laborites in parliament. Whenever the Tory group splits, the Labor Party will take up the reins again. It is not probable that Lloyd George, who is now attempting to affiliate himself with Labor, will ever become prime minister again...
...What I wish to make clear to you tonight is that this desire for education is making the Labor Party the greatest potential power in England...