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...Dewey said, "Education is a social process." This was taken to mean that "all educational activities must be social in nature...The child who preferred the contemplative life must at all costs be brought out of his seclusion and thrust into strenuous social activity. If he wished to read poetry when other children were playing drop the handkerchief, the teacher first made an effort to entice or force him into the more social activity, and if this failed, she sent out a call for the school psychologist...The statement that education is a social process is a dangerous and misleading...
...Dewey said, " 'Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.' When this had gone through the long and circuitous route to the classroom, it was understood to mean that the schools should not be overly concerned with preparing the child for anything except possibly the strenuous social activity which we have mentioned. The high school should not worry about whether it was preparing the student for college, and the elementary school should not concern itself with preparing the child for high school...The school was to be merely a specialized environment, in which the child lived...
Dean Wooldridge, who came from Bell Laboratories. On Thornton's advice, Hughes had decided to give up the crowded field of airframe building and concentrate on electronics, reportedly over the strenuous objection of Noah Dietrich, his chief industrial adviser. Ramo and Wooldridge, because of their standing among electronic engineers-and with unlimited funds provided by Hughes-were able to round up many of the top experts in the country. Hughes also persuaded General Harold George, wartime boss of the Air Transport Command, to join the company, and he became vice president and general manager. Sales, which had been about...
Mansure has added to the take by a strenuous campaign to clean out old Government files. Result: for the first time in federal history, the Government two months ago began throwing away old files faster than it filled new ones. Such space saving has enabled Mansure to cut the Government's leased office and warehouse space 10%, and he expects to lop off another 7% before next July. A by-Droduct of the housecleaning is that GSA last year bought 96,000 file cabinets at $60 apiece. This year it will need only 8,000 new ones...
...with eleven other Communist Party bosses (all convicted) because two court-appointed doctors said his heart was too weak to stand the courtroom ordeal, Party Chairman William Zebulon Foster, the twelfth and biggest U.S. Communist, has been busy writing and speechmaking. His labors have taken him on two strenuous cross-country trips. Last week, after doctors re-examined him and found that his cardiovascular condition was no better, Foster, now 72, won another continuance, thus removing all likelihood that he will ever stand trial...