Word: vocationalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Pilgrim's Progress. This is exemplified in The Castle. The Castle is an inverted Pilgrim's Progress. Its subject is a man's obsessive struggle to achieve God (the Castle)-who does not recognize man's vocation-while trying to integrate himself in the community...
Threshold of Silence. All the great creators are lonely travelers. For their vocation and their plight, one of the loneliest frontiers of modern science-jet propulsion-has found an accurate metaphor. They are commissioned (but at their own risk) to cross the supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at...
The best as well as the worst teachers are fantastically overworked. Only about half those enrolled in state normal schools and teachers' colleges intend to teach;* there are graduates enough from these training schools to fill only about a third of the positions open. The situation is such that...
Deny a people the freedom of the Bill of Rights, and security becomes slavery, vocation forced labor, privacy concealment, the family a hutch for mass breeding, the school an outpost, of the state, social intelligence a technique of rationalization, art and literacy weapons to impose conformity, the person a subject...
Business and medicine, which rank highest in undergraduate and graduate tastes, show the only sizeable changes. Eleven percent of Grant Study Sophomores and present Yard residents signified that they were headed for a commercial vocation, but 30 percent of those same sophomores are now in business careers. A somewhat smaller...