Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general scheme of college education, finally, can be complete, which does not contemplate the continuous and valued relation between student bodies in all colleges. I have heard that the tramp student is becoming common in this country, the student, that is, who visits first one college and then another in his pursuit of learning. I would welcome such an exchange of students if we were only sure that the purpose of such an exchange were the advancement of learning. I believe profoundly in the value of such contacts between students of the East and West, between students of American...
...must be by the way of guidance and a mere supplement to that which the student does himself. I think that the teacher can help the student, but can not do it for him and that is what we are trying to do with our lecture system and our scheme of instruction. We are trying to hand on to the students the work done by the teacher. Of course, that statement is too strong but there is too much of that. The thing that we find it hard to do, is to get the young American to stand...
...young American be liberally educated? Can it be done? And it doesn't seem that there is very much doubt about the answer. The answer so far is that he can't under existing conditions. That question seems to be a rather serious one for this reason: Our whole scheme of life in America is based on the presupposition that the young American can be educated. We have supposed that America is to be the home of educated persons, and we have devised a scheme of government and devised a scheme of life based on that pre-supposition, that young...
...teach literature in schools to children who come from homes where a good book is never read. It is pretty hard to teach philosophy in a world where there is no taste for it in its social life. America is interested in other things. America has a social scheme which has very little recognition of what the way of understanding is. A second difficulty is that our school system is as yet not ready to give the proper preparation for college work. It has been hastily constructed and is as yet in the preliminary stages of its development. Our college...
...gentle reader of your reported interview with me relative to my talk on the political and legal phases of the oil investigations before the Harvard Liberal Club, would certainly be stimulated to wonder whether facts had any importance in the scheme of life. He would be, as I am, at a loss to unscramble the report. Certainly its writer had a feeling that something "smelled rotten", but his olfactory nerves turned towards procedure, government counsel, in fact, towards anything save what commonly smells rotten Oil. To refute its many statements would not be worth time or space. But the product...