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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absurd and puerile things that go on in the name of education. What I have seen convinces me that most of the Satellites do not know what education is. They are told they are getting it, so they believe they are. They think it is the product of a formula which they state as follows...
...already had pretty definite ideas about education, my dear Usbek, I think this last discovery would have suggested them to my mind. Education is something to be acquired. It is not a product--but a process--a process of continuous and complete development which has no end. It is like the budding of a plant. The motive force must come from within. It is a mistake to say, as they are saying here at Dravrah that they are educating men. They are not, and never will. All they can do here is to offer facilities for use. Education is always...
Such an experiment, perhaps the germ of a wider literary movement, has come at a propitious time. The much-abused and misunderstood renaissance of America's younger generation, of which the flapper-is commonly considered the only product, is-well started. Youth has asserted itself variously and with considerable effect. Up to this time it has had to fight for recognition and being immature, has in its enthusiasm acted often rashly or gone to sensational extremes. All contests for independence are characterized by such exhibitions--witness the French Revolution...
...first place, Evolution is not foolish. Anyone who tries to laugh aside as a joke this great monument of intellectual advancement becomes himself ridiculous. It is food for the loftiest thought. Here, as everywhere else, the revelations of science have proved, beyond comparison, more uplifting and inspiring than any product of the human imagination, such as the myth about Adam...
...wholesale methods of the Chicago packers enabled U. S. packers to compete in England with Continental packers on the basis of price. But the Danes aimed at a quality product, and thus more and more absorbed the best trade. Even as recently as 1923, U. S. bacon led, in quantity, all other bacons imported into England. Now the Danish brands are first, and the Dutch and the Swedes are beginning to climb...