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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...must adopt a new attitude. First of all, we must accept the reality of absolute values, as exemplified in art, ethics, and religion; we must accept the reality of man and society, the reality of empirical data, and finally the infinite possibility of interpreting anything, within its own context, as real. He has certainly provided a means of relationship between narrow, closed orbits of specialization, which would seem to be a long stride toward the establishment of a cooperation of ideas and through this to a cooperation between peoples...
...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...