Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inevitable tendency toward that familiar process, the transfer of information from the teacher's to the student's notebook without passing through the head of either. The greatest influence on that tendency is, of course, the personality of the instructor, but too many have neglected the most effective stimulating tool available, class discussion...
Where Max Stirner reasoned, Thomas Carlyle panegyrized and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche thundered, Alfred Adler demonstrates the Ego. Early this century he was a disciple of great Sigmund Freud, used to join with other disciples at the Freud home. Psychoanalysis was a new, amazing tool which Dr. Freud invented to analyze hysteria, mental kinks, nervous twists of all sorts. Most of the company agreed with Dr. Freud's pontifical decision that suppression was the main source of neuroses...
...little Dr. Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving...
...nine great turbogenerators that will eventually produce 800,000 h.p. Water raised by the great concrete wall will make the Dnieper navigable up nearly all of its 1,400 miles. It will irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres. Workmen are hurrying to finish aluminum, steel and machine tool plants at the dam site. Soviet statisticians boast that it will serve a population...
Three investigators, widely separated, last week reported on an invisible light ray which seems to be the intimate tool of death...