Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure science, philology before literature, facts before ideas, classifications before generalizations"? A French professor who spent some time in Yale is quoted in the New York Herald as believing that it is. Facts are the basis of knowledge, but they are only the basis, and it is this latter truth which American students fail...
...tools; it can teach him methods of thinking, laws of reason, processes of gathering and analyzing and arranging, and giving solution to the facts of his future problems; his visions it can stimulate. Experience teaches men the rule of thumb, but culture should teach men the generalizations and truths of mind. A smattering of Biology is useless; knowledge of the scientific method is invaluable. And so with the other departments:--methods are the things which all men naturally desire to know. They are what men live by. Give me a universal law--O bearer of lux of veritas (light...
...here'. That, of course, is not the attitude of all India, but it is the felling of the great many. Because Ghana objected to the English use of Indian soldiers in foreign wares, he is quite commonly considered as a pacifist. Nothing could be further from the truth. He merely does not want to see his country men used to extend English domination over other countries. 'If India should be attacked,' he say, 'no one would advocate enlistment in the army sooner than I, but when it means subjecting other countries to English rule, I do object.' That...
...discouraged by the work in the course which is planned for the man with the schoolboy attitude. "This method," he says, "of treating both sections as though they were unwilling has the great disadvantage of failing to educate either." In this statement there is a large measure of truth, although some of the "eager" probably surmount the difficulty; yet if they do, it is because they started college with some qualifications worthy of the name education. As a remedy it is suggested that the eager and the unwilling be separated; that the methods used in one, be quite different from...
...strongest intellectual center of progressive movement through the last few years has been the Government University in Peking. American missionaries have been accused of participation in the popular movements especially against Japan. The truth of the matter is that students in missionary institutions are trained in thorough knowledge of English, History, and Political Science, with the strongest curb against political action on the part of the missionary heads. Despite this curb the students who realize that they alone know the situation, naturally become almost fanatical in their patriotism...