Word: solver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Dodds: "No school for normal youth can escape the duty to develop the intellectual approach to life and to train the mind as a means for personal enjoyment and as a solver of problems. Unfortunately, when we come to view America's vast system of tax-supported secondary education, we are bound, I fear, to admit that, with all it has to its credit, it is not fulfilling its duty to the mind ... Its greatest weakness has come from playing down academic scholarship ... in favor of universality at a level of intellectual aptitudes adjusted to a common denominator...