Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consent to euthanasia because religious law forbids him from doing away with himself, so he may not destroy his own freedom to answer or not according to his own judgment. Those who ask for a lie-detector test in order to prove they are speaking the truth must find other means of convincing inquirers. Otherwise, the point will come when anyone who refuses a lie-detector test will automatically feel accused of falsehood. A true reply must be freely spoken-not spoken under the pressure of certainty that untruths will...
...What Is Truth? In the Educational Record, Byron S. Hollinshead, onetime president of Coe College of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, writes what is virtually an educationist manifesto: "One can be lost in admiration for hard work and high standards . . . without believing that rote learning and a heavy emphasis on past civilizations constitute the best preparation for solving modern problems." French children, says he, are interested in Latin because it is similar to their own language, because it is used in Roman Catholic churches, and because Roman ruins arouse their curiosity, but "one cannot expect an American boy to have the same...
...math? "Why should everybody pursue algebra, physics and chemistry? Must everyone play the piano, or play football? Granted that a knowledge of arithmetic and general science is essential, how far beyond that are low-ability students supposed to go?" Summing-up Hollinshead credo: "We do not believe that human truth is always and everywhere the same. We believe it varies and changes with time and place . . . We also believe that education has something to do with preparing the student to be able to adjust (horrible word of the critics...
Before fatigue compels suspension of the current controversy about the place of religion at Harvard, we, the undersigned, who disagree as radically about the truth of Christian doctrine as we agree about the importance of truth and the reasonableness of conviction, believe we should speak out in favor of the side of the argument which has so far been almost unrepresented. What we think has been neglected is the traditional and true conception of the church and indeed of what tolerance means...
...many others, it might seem absurd for a man to be "ultimately concerned" merely with scholarship. But Harvard is not an individual. It is a corporate entity deriving its strength from the fact that its members agree upon a common purpose--the pursuit of their individual visions of truth wherever these may lead. For many, perhaps for most, the search leads to the Christian Revelation of God. But that is the concern not of the University, but of individual teachers and students...