Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important features in the acquisition of an education is the ability to think and weigh decisions for oneself; given both sides of a case, the final judgment, unless it comes from the student himself, is worthless both to the student and as a judgment. Spoon-fed minds can never be anything but a sop to the community. And, incidentally, the propagandists are defeating their own ends; for as soon as a counter-propagandist appears who can out-shout them, their converts, trained to be "followers". Carlylian "valets", are as liable as not to recant, and desert to the enemy...
...early prejudice brings with it all the attendant dangers of disillusionment. Furthermore, an enduring faith in one's country is founded not on ignorance of its shortcomings but on an appreciation of the counterbalancing merits. The sconer this is recognized in our elementary history classes, the sooner will our "spoon-fed" patriotism give way to one of reason...
...which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...