Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trying to educate these swarming children of the poor and the ignorant was not a simple or often a popular task.1900s. Until 1928, students were allowed to quit school at 14 (the present age: 17). But the schools grew nevertheless, and in growing were moved to both experiment and reform. Corporal punishment was condemned in 1850-an era when most U.S. schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes...
...rise high above this reputation if Florida is to escape a return to the Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby. State law will not permit Johns to run for governor next year, and McCarty's followers are determined to find a candidate who will carry out their reform program. Among those prominently mentioned: retired General James A. Van Fleet, a Florida resident and citrus grower...
...period of relief before the dock workers' strike flares up again, the public needs to reconsider its entire attitude toward this essential industry. For unless there is a basic change in this attitude, all the crime commissions, waterfront commissions, and all the reform attempts of the AF of L will be as temporary as the anti-strike injunction itself...
...third great evil, says Hutchins, is the concept of education as a means of furthering this or that social doctrine. Hutchins uses the same paddle to wallop both John Dewey and T. S. Eliot, who espoused opposed educational philosophies. Dewey held that education should be used to further social reform. Eliot, while disapproving of "reconstructionalism," is just as bad, Hutchins says, because he proclaims that "education should help to preserve the class and select the elite...
...conformists, the specialists, the pragmatists and the reconstructionalists are all wrong, says Hutchins. Education should be neither a means toward earning a living nor of promoting social reform. Education should be liberal, its object "to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." With such an education, a man can take part in the continuing Great Conversation, and himself seek the answer to the overwhelming question: "What is the nature and destiny...