Word: prating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Adams was upset by the answer to his question, and there is good reason for educational philosophers to be disturbed by the replies of today. People prate of colleges providing young men with "practical experience" or "social stability" or "the free mind," but no formal educational process can call itself a success unless it gives to its recipients, along with facts and experience, the desire and ability to learn...
...sorry commentary on our public educational system that, while our leaders prate about "progressive education," educators themselves are establishing parochial schools for the training of their children...
...Critic Daiches suggests that she might have made a good political pamphleteer. It seems rather like gelding the lily. Yet Mrs. Woolf is memorable for clarity as well as iridescence. A devoted artist, she was no political revolutionist, but she had her veins of wrath. She wrote: "We may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated in that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born." She added: "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. . . . . Women have [always...
...that was only a talking point for the North. The World War was not fought for Democracy; that was only a slogan for the Allies. And the present war is not being fought for the preservation of Sacred Ideals. . . . Nevertheless, how incongruous it is that we should all glibly prate such ideals...