Word: cared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...
...system is fundamentally deficient to meet modern conditions, but the adoption of the English system would only partially solve the problem. It would provide for the so-called "scholars" and give them a chance for full development. The failure of the English system is that it does not take care of those not so quick at their books and overlooks the powers which may lie hidden in these men. What we need is a system under which the ability of those men who do not learn from books will not be wasted...
...second great difficulty is that every school is bound by the bugbear of the college entrance requirements. I do not care what prospect and catalogues say, if a schoolmaster is absolutely honest, he will acknowledge that, in most cases, all his efforts, are directed to the purpose of placing his boys in their prospective colleges, free of all conditions. Hampered, firstly, by tradition, and secondly, by this bugbear, it is almost impossible to produce a real scholar...
...products, and until our own production is increased sufficiently to meet a part, at least, of the enormous demand, the high prices will prevail. Even then, however, they will decline very gradually and there is no prospect of an early lowering in prices. When Europe can take care of her own demand, she will then be able to underbid us in our markets and furnish goods at a lower price, for in Europe there are no such exorbitantly high wages paid as there are here...