Word: surveyors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What we dislike in such ultra-modern programs is that they tend to make education a vocational training instead of a personal cultivation, to make wealth instead of happiness the goal of a child's studies. A man of fifty surely is not a better surveyor or a better electrician for having attended a trade school at sixteen. He has simply started earlier, at the sacrifice of certain kinds of learning which cannot be acquired later. And if one fellow gets his start, others must compete with him in the same way. Thus the old condition will re-assent itself...
...comparison of the Constitution of the United States, outlining the boundaries of our government, to a surveyor's staking out of a field is a favorite one. The field once defined, precedent and the Supreme Court have cultivated it and made it what it is today...