Word: teach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have fixed them upon something which is very subordinate, namely, how to prepare you to make a living." Unfortunately, Mr. Butler supplies ample contradiction for himself. He regrets the fact that the elementary schools have deviated from their proper business of training young children in good physiological habits, of teaching them the elementary forces of nature, of giving them the ability to read understandingly, to write legibly, to use numbers correctly. These have been pushed into the background "by all sorts of enterprises that have their origin in emotionalism, in ignorance, or in mere vanity." A great deal of what...
There is indeed menace of many sorts in Europe, and I believe that the greatest menace is not where our newspapers and controlling statesmen teach us to look for it. The most famous and influential anti-war book written in the years before 1914 was written by Mr. Norman Angell. "The Great Illusion" proved conclusively that under modern conditions even the victor in war would lose by war. It proved that thesis conclusively, and yet Europe went to war, and the war not only brought about material prostration that must be long continued, but it left conditions and passions that...
...England has much to teach us in regard to the possibilities of individual instruction, either singly or in small groups, we must not forget that our lecture system gives us certain advantages which Oxford and Cambridge lack and which we should be very foolish to abandont. Our aim should be to retain the strong points of what we already have, and combine them in so far as possible with the benefits to be derived from the English system. The Alumni Bulletin...
There's never an Eli can teach us to play...
There's never an Eli can teach us to play...