Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...question is who will be in Parliament when all these formalities are over. The Parliament chosen in 1945 had 393 Laborites, 197 Conservatives, and a smattering of Liberals, Communists, and others. For five years, Labor has had a healthy majority to carry through its program: nationalization of basic industries, socialized medicine, strict rationing, high taxation, tight restrictions on business and foreign trade, and democratization of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...root of the first problem, which is primarily financial, is the basic human frailty expressed in the old saying: "The doctor is always paid last." Put in more modern terms, it was summed up by a prominent California physician: "The average patient isn't for socialized medicine until he gets his bill...
This week, as the 1,000 educators met, the Denver controversy still smoldered. A local businessman named-Cyril Reed announced that he was organizing a Committee for the Improvement of the Denver Public Schools. Its purpose: war against general education, a return to more concentrated teaching of the traditional basic subjects, which he and his group are convinced that Denver's schools neglect, no matter what else twig-bending Superintendent Oberholtzer and his teachers may achieve...
...Kenneth Oberholtzer's convention guests, however, all that would have a familiar sound. All over the U.S., critics had raised their voices to attack the educators and the basic pragmatic philosophy of John Dewey from which in large part their system sprang. There were also critics with a simpler question: Were the schools trying to do too much, and thus doing nothing thoroughly...
...likely to be more important than the daily headlines, and science more important than sewing. They seemed to be cluttering up their programs with too many matters that should be learned at home, or in jobs and daily life after the school had finished its work in the basic essentials. Long ago, John Dewey himself had complained of the cluttered burden the schools had to carry: "The public school is the willing packhorse of our social system; it is the true hero of the refrain: Let George do it." If George were only less willing, he might indeed be more...