Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which remain to be pointed out by following generations. And in no field is authority so liable to blunder as in that of moral distinction. Each generation has corrected and even reversed the standards of obscenity and beauty which its predecessors respected. The constant modification of moral critoria should teach the postal authorities that they cannot be too cautious of hasty and outright condemnation...
...college is to be useful it must develop a new machinery. It must teach the undergraduate to achieve work of graduate quality within the limite of his four year course. He must acquire a more intimate familiarity with the instruments of knowledge, and this must be done without sacrificing the ordinary advantages of undergraduate life...
Another was equally assertive on his subject. "Science is the cornerstone of our education here at Dravrah. Every Satellite must spend two hours a week weighing, dissecting, analyzing, measuring, tabulating, deciphering, and cataloguing the natural elements. I teach these young men to think in terms of pounds, masses, kilometers, millimeters, gas meters, forces, actions, reactions, contractions, categories, Tropisnis, causes and effects. Precision in these matters discovers the why and wherefore which every educated man must know...
...last I met a kindly old Prophezzor whose face smiled benignity and humanity. When I asked what he was doing to further the cause of education, he shook his head. "It doesn't matter what you teach a young man, you can never educate him," he said. "It used to worry me when I saw how eagerly these upturned faces hung upon my words as if awaiting an oracle, and then how lightly they forgot what I had taken such pains to make clear. I discovered that the whole problem of education has been approached from the wrong...
...large a territory. As Mr. Erskine himself says, the great men and great ideas of all time have not been numerous, and they could easily be included in one college course. The mistake lies in supposing that simply because these men represent the best, a study of them will teach discrimination. That virtue may be taught just as well by comparing a second-rate man with a man of genius, as by absorbing a high standard and then referring every question to that ideal...