Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such is actually the case with the great majority of people under our present industrial system. This is the day of the fool-proof machine. A man in Ford's factory can learn his job in two days. That is the length of professional training required. Compare this with the law school and medical school, which last three and four years and require a college degree before hand. Compare it with the training of an artist or a singer. There you have something of a measure of the comparative value of the expressive pursuits--what we call the professions...
...what of the fool anonymous, the fool rampant, the fool who writes the asinine comments on page margins of books in the Widener Library...