Word: utopianizing
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...almost certainly be challenged by others. Flaws can be found in any utopia, and educators would be among the quickest to look for them. Without urging the necessity and inevitability of every reform included in the plan, however, it may be possible to outline for non-scientific studies a utopian program which would answer some of the most damaging attacks made on the educational structure of the College as it stands...
...essential adjunct to the proposal is that all papers be marked carefully, returned, and, if necessary, discussed. Here enters the second factor in the utopian program: the conference group. This idea is not new to the College, for it is used in History I and many other courses. But to make the conference group the central factor that it is, for example, in the Princeton "preceptorials," it would have to be given a definite status and function and standard...
...difficulty of tutorial has always been lack of a specific function in each student's case. What would be emphasized in the utopian program as tutorial's own goal is coordination of all the student's scattered courses and reading into a pattern leading somewhere in his own academic field. To help the undergraduate think about where he is heading intellectually, to fit the courses he takes in his field of concentration into a larger idea of the field--these objects only tutorial can achieve...
...Poet Shelley was a true vegetarian. Utopian More loved corned beef...
President Conant diagnosed Russia's leaders as "fanatic believers in a consis- tent policy which rune back to Marx. According to this philosophy," he said, "they believe themselves pioneers who will eventually usher in a utopian...