Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Should we, therefore, make education more materialistic? For two reasons we should not: (1) The greatest after the-war problems will be social and moral, not materialistic. However much we may be concerned about the expansion of our South American trade, we are far more concerned about conserving the moral insights of war and of salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money...
...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...
...chief omission of emphasis in the interesting comment which you published on my previous suggestion is on my urging of the political or social attitude. Profiteering, private gain, crushing weaker nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square...
...demands our immediate attention. In all the instances I have given above, the motive of the action was openly selfish and materialistic: private gain or personal comfort was the end desired. This materialistic motive pervades all human society at the present time; it lies at the heart of the social problem. Unfortunately, the evil is a difficult one to remedy; an easier and more effective method is to prevent it. Does Mr. Lazarus think this can be done by recognizing and encouraging in our system of education "a frank striving for money?" I do not. Does Mr. Lazarus think that...
Lieutenant Morize will speak before the Society of Harvard Dames in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Several slides of war scenes will be shown. At the close of the address a social hour will be given in the Phillips Brooks House by the Society...