Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discusses "Some Aspects of a Liberal Education." Since he is striving after clarification rather than novelty, his maxims, isolated in italic type, have a familiar ring. "The aim of a liberal education is to arouse the sense of wonder," he says. "The aim of education is to break the stranglehold of the present." "And the aim of a liberal education is to arouse the young man to a keener awareness." To the common conception of liberal education as a conspiracy to arouse the sense of wonder it may be reasonably objected that men who make no pretense of being educated...
...break the "stranglehold of the present," as Mr. Demos vividly describes it, the past is the most effective weapon. For the present is the product of the past and the promise of the future. In order to live wisely in the present moment it is necessary to have a sense of the continuity of time and an awareness of the fact that those who made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard has spoken of "separating future creative scholars into a distinct body. . . . Such an atmosphere should carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country.'' Dr. Lowell has also referred often to "the stranglehold of the Ph. D." on education. To loosen it at Harvard he announced last week a "Society of Fellows -24 young men who will spend three years in comfortable study, free of any academic regulation and lured by no prospect of credits or degrees. Graduates of any college, aged 25 or younger, they will be known as "Junior Prize Fellows...
...selling peerages to war profiteers. This money, now amounting through wise investment to some $15,000,000, is officially the campaign fund of the Liberal Party. Because he controls this money, Mr. Lloyd George, whom many a Liberal mistrusts and dislikes, remains leader of the party with a stranglehold that nothing can break...