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...leaves, stems, branches, birds and human figures, from which the background has been cut away, so that the inner bowl is visible. The most striking part of all this elaborate carving are the twelve seated figures. These are identified as Jesus- once as a boy and once as an adult-and some of the disciples: Jude and James, Peter, Paul, Mark, Matthew, John and James the Greater. Dr. Eisen regards the figures as actual portraits. It is noteworthy that Christ is beardless...
...more liberal extension of academic freedom through a wider integration of fields of knowledge and research. Further, on this liberal basis of scholarship there must be encouraged a more intensive study of human problems; and lastly the results of this study must be disseminated more widely by means of adult education through extension institutes in universities...
President Hutchins looks to university extension courses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Seminars for professional men, he believes, would make adult education self-respecting, and might prove an equal benefit to scholarship. The obstacles in the way of effective adult education are obvious. Most men, while they will accept the pre-digested education offered by the radio, are not interested in advanced study requiring difficult thought. In the absence of any prospect of financial gain, there is apparently no sufficient incentive to sustained mental effort...
...develop the hidden gifts of childhood is the purpose of modern creative education, according to Hughes Mearns, Professor of Education at New York University. Education, he feels, should preserve and enrich the original endowments of the child, rather than crushing these innate talents under the heavy weight of adult philistinism. Mr. Mearns criticism of present education is really an indictment of modern society as a whole. In attacking the unimaginative and conventional in teaching, he is aiming at the same quality in American civilization in general. As the New Humanists would have it, Mr. Mearns is opposing dry reality with...
...attacks of the early primitivists against the neo-classicism of eighteenth century France, so there is a great deal of truth in Professor Mearns' criticism of modern pedagogy. He points out that it is instinctive for the child to tell the truth, which is often so embarrassing to the adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which he is made to write in order to accord with...