Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educational system devised as a panacea for one philosophical group will 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...
...utopia, then, should fulfill the requirement of spreading the student's thinking throughout the term. It must also provide an alternative which will permit grading at least as fair and sensitive as that which prevails under the examination system. This alternative can be derived from one of the most rewarding innovations of the General Education courses: short, frequent written assignments during the term. It is difficult to admit the possibility of education without examinations, but a careful analysis of papers as a substitute for tests shows them to meet all the requirements...
However, if people will take the trouble to read the Utopia carefully and intelligently, they will find in it no defense of vegetarianism. The book does indeed contain a number of things not to be taken too seriously; for instance, the absence of all lawyers in Utopia, the presence of women priests, the practice of euthanasia (which has made the members of the Euthanasia Society very stupidly claim More as a patron...
...relied on some biographical chitchat for this impeachment of More's anti-slaughter principles. I have re-examined the Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams for some verification of this corned beef calumny, without finding the slightest substantiation. On the contrary, in More's justly famed Utopia, we find the Utopians condemning every form of slaughter, whether it be for sport, style or sustenance...
Better a garden In Kansas City than a park in Utopia...