Word: rote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the real significance of the mooted Bolshevik-Royalist party, it cannot be denied that when a paper like Die Rote Fahne offers and Count Reventlow accepts the hospitality of its columns, there is an a priori case for something rotten in the German state...
Both the Communists and the Nationalists (Monarchists) have a common enemy?the Socialists. It has been common knowledge for years that the two parties were slowly drifting together. Nevertheless all Berlin was startled to read in Die Rote Fahne, Communist daily, articles from Karl Radek, Soviet Government's able propagandist, and Count von Reventlow, apostle of the ex-All Highest...
...Communist organ Die Rote Fahn published an article prophesying a Nationalist coup, accompanied by terrorism hitherto unknown. The paper advocated killing every fifth Fascist...
...common fallacy of the classroom that a lesson can be learned by a comprehensive knowledge of its salient features, without regard to the medium used for its expression. The movement of educational opinion away from former methods of studying by rote has helped to foster this abstract and general process of assimilation. In theory, the movement has been a good one since it was hitherto possible to parrot the word of the text with no knowledge of the lesson itself. But there are also distinct disadvantages which have led to a more careless interpretation of the subject matter involved...
...learn to do by doing," he says. A degree of self-service in education is often of far more value than an equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable incentive to work, it is perhaps a slower but certainly a surer way to fix facts in the memory; it trains the mind to be an active organ instead of a passive receptacle for knowledge; above all, it fits a man to apply himself...