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...variety of interpretations of the material. Tutoring schools can't help here, because all they can do is pound home a few dozen essential facts, and perhaps hand down a two-bit stock interpretation of these facts. If the exam questions involve looking at the matter in a different context or from an unexpected angle, the tutored scholar is caught flatfooted...
...Savings is a 'good' word, tenderly regarded in the folkways. ... If savings are not invested, they become hoardings, or idle money. . . . Investment is a 'good' word. . . . Hoarding is a 'bad' word. . . . Always remember that one context pleases the layman and the other distresses...
...shape of head. A national population may be a confusing potpourri of many races and racial blends, and the most typical representatives of one race may be scattered among many nations. A specialist in racial anthropology must track down the basic racial features and distinguish them in their jumbled context...
Feild One Who Restores Context...
...merely for the museum, a rarified preciousness." If the layman is to meet the artist half way, we must include among the scholars, the research experts, the technicians on our faculties, men who can bring past and present into meaningful relationship, restore to past works of art their lost context and meaning, relate art to the common run of experience, override the compartments we have built for convenience, recognize the present as a legitimale subject for investigation, and cultivate in themselves and their students an intellectually alert relation to the kinds of experience which not only the past has bequeathed...