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Impertinent German Communists have snickered recently over a poem in Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), have bellowed at an obscene cartoon in Knüppel (Cudgel...
President Mason of Chicago deplored "rote learning". Dr. Penniman of Pennsylvania insisted that "education must be dynamic"; while the Illinois President, Dr. Kinley, deprecated "educational...
...charge of "rote learning" strikes an actual evil. The growth of universities has outstripped the science of pedagogy. And to combat the wrong, Dr. Penniman and Dr. Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory...
...News rote from the headlines of the estimable Boston Evening American "Wellesley's Dormitories Like Jungle--Wild Animals of Many Kinds are to be Seen There...
Poor men, living by rote, and coddled in all the conveniences which civilization has perfected to make country life tolerable and city life pleasant, are unfamiliar with the forces of Nature, and abashed by any display of the power that throws down telephone poles like jackstraws, cracks huge sewer pipes, and keeps the electric light from turning...