Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy merchants running out to the club for a bit of football in the afternoon? Will they organize their baseball team? Can you imagine inviting your best friend to "come out and run a mile with me this afternoon?" . . . Yet these are the forms of athletics that our schools teach boys. . . . Tennis is the real major sport.'" Wilhelm: "Irresponsible American newspapers talked of a breach between me and my bride when she left for Germany. The New York Times truthfully reports: 'There are, indeed, periods when the pair are on very affectionate terms.' " Pat Collins...
...private school, says John Dewey, may exist for such special training as it pleases, but the public school must serve the purpose of the community as a whole. Hence it must teach " those subjects which are found to be, first, necessary, and, secondly, highly useful in serving this purpose of developing good citizenship, industrial and political, for leisure as well as for work, good members of the family and the neighborhood as well as of the political state and the workshop and farm...
...introductory paragraph of a New York Tribune editorial: "If passengers were sailing under a captain who announced the opinion that icebergs were good for a ship, and who thereupon steered his vessel for the nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City the ship...
...generally believed by those who see with two eyes that Syracuse or any other institution of learning is subsidized to teach falsely. But it is true that human beings are often grateful and more often needy, and that the relation of the giver to his gift is not terminated by the giving. There is, therefore, and there will always be, a temptation on the part of academic recipients of charity to cherish the source of their supply. And for that reason if for no other we should be better off without personal endowments, in theory. The difficulty in practice...
...called upon to meet even the running expenses of the university we are remitted to the tax payers. Tax payers are not interested in remote sciences or obscure arts. In the state of Washington they are not even interested in necessary buildings. The result would be freedom of teaching but no one to teach. And freedom itself might be limited...