Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education teacher . . . has the lowest contempt for any one who dares speak against her educational doctrines as set down by Dewey and other education philosophers -"the curriculum doctors" ... I agree with Mr. Bestor. The stress [in modern education] is too much on how and not why. Before I even took an education course'. . . I was all prepared to enjoy myself teaching the young boys and girls ... to ... raise them to an esthetic level in life, but now I am actually terrified to open a schoolroom window until I have been told in a textbook . . . how high it should...
Appointment in Honduras (RKO Radio) is a problem picture. The problem: if Ann Sheridan, with nothing on her back but some translucent yellow nightclothes, is abandoned in a Central American jungle with six hot-blooded men, can the material sustain the stress of the situation...
...committee's interests and doctrines account perhaps for the fact that the report shows little appreciation and sometimes little understanding of the nature, accomplishments and aims of religion and philosophy. They account perhaps for the fact too, that what the report stress in the social sciences, art and literature, are primarily the historical aspects...
...Indiana's textbook commissioner said, "There is a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood." Such a forthright cry deserves applause. America's youth must be saved from so insidious a menace...
...much of a university as anyplace else; other times, they have admitted that it is not a university in quite the accepted sense, adding, however, that they never really wanted it to be anyway. President Harold W. Dodds expressed such an attitude when he said, "We shall continue to stress the college as the element which alone gives meaning to a university. We shall uphold the banner of the general as the only safe foundation for the particular. We shall strive for quality rather than quantity; we have no illusions of grandeur that bigness will satisfy. We shall resist...