Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of "rote learning" strikes an actual evil. The growth of universities has outstripped the science of pedagogy. And to combat the wrong, Dr. Penniman and Dr. Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory...
From the reformer's point of view more lasting good can be achieved by impressing on the normal man the advantage of obeying the law than by spending a like amount of energy in the attempt to teach a lunatic the difference between right and wrong. One can never hope that a mental defective will do constructive work for society or even that he will become independent of charitable aid. Practically therefore the sane criminal should at least be on a parity with the lunatic wrongdoer in the eyes of the law. Misplaced mercy to the hopelessly insane does...
...then you are like to be wrong...
...wasn't wrong. I was quite right. College men are divided into two classes of which the first or primary class is that including the gay young things or girls away from home because one doesn't marry until one has looked around a bit and father doesn't mind a little peace; of which the second or secondary class is that which includes thinking beings or those whose charm is as negligible as presidential repartee and whose pallor of feature is rouged alone by the faint fervor of a minimum intelligence. Oh! How dreadful...
...public square, on high hills or on top of our skyscrapers. Everybody should be required to attend. The schools and factories and business houses should be let out, just as they are on a holiday. The children should start right by seeing what we do to those who go wrong. 'Movies' should be taken and the front pages should be covered with delicious details of the murderer's last hours...