Word: todays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education of today is an education for sheep. What is needed is an education for lions...
...Discipline as a tool, versus discipline as a straight jacket. Today, when you meet another graduate student, or professor, you ask him what is his field...
...With facsimile reproduction, libraries of several hundred volumes might be constructed that replicate fully the holdings of a small American college in 1850, or a small public library in 1900. Schools today might purchase such libraries, and they might exist in sufficient variety that the students in one school would perforce grow up in a different intellectual environment from students in nearby schools...
...encyclopedias are intellectual treasure troves. Today one can buy second hand an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910, for $30-50. Written by a generation of gentlemen scholars that possessed a literary taste we have lost, it presents all of science, medicine, history, geography, and the disciplines of the day in 40 million words. Imagine that in 2030, it will be possible to read an encyclopedia of 1970 with as much critical detachment as we today can bring to bear on one of 1910 ! Imagine that we could devise an education today that could cultivate now such...
...early in the season. Army, however, was not as powerful as expected. Through graduation they lost two All-Americans. Barry Kerr and Dick Heesch and diver Don Green. Another big blow was the loss of Steve Kennedy, who is no longer at the Academ. "We expected to lose today," Ryan explained...