Word: thinker
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...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...
...which England has treated the Irish question. The CRIMSON would be the last to hold a brief for the prolongation of the present unbearable situation. If Irish partizans, however, would receive in this country the protection of liberal laws, they must grant to the Loyal Coalitioner and the independent thinker the same freedom of expression for which they clamor. They must cease seeking to subvert the machinery of American government to the schemes of Irish separatism. They must abstain from the intimidation of voters and the baiting of public officers...
...religious thinker Blake was the last of the great mystics. He has stated the essential doctrines of Christianity more clearly than any contemporary; and at the same time he contains all the thought of such diverse thinkers as Shelley and Nietzsche...
...most of us, William Blake is known only as a poet, but his full genius as an artist, a religious thinker and a writer is vividly shown in this exhibit of illuminated manuscripts...
...Education is not merely a matter of pouring in accepted doctrines, but rather of making the student's brain work. As we do not attempt to limit the reading of the radical book in the university, so we should not restrict the radical thinker of great ability, who at least provokes discussion and thought...