Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Cultivating in students the habit of docile acceptance of doctrines, however safe in themselves, is no insurance against mischievous doctrine. A student who accepts one theory in this passive fashion is just as liable to accept its contrary at a later date. The only method on which reliance can safely be placed is that of training the student in the first-hand investigation of facts; in the power of seeing which facts are significant; and in the drawing of valid inferences. To learn to think straight is the chief aim of a college education...
...stood. Tolerance and a breadth of view are the chief values to be gained from a college education, and nowhere as in our universities is it possible so easily to learn these values. If Columbia is really able to inculcate in here students a clearer perspective by her new method of teaching history, and to make curriculum more applicable to a present blending of "red" with "white," by all means let us study and adopt her system...
...course of study of the growth of civilization is now used at Columbia University as a method of overcoming both the ultra-radicals and the ultra-conservatives. In the annual report of President Nicholas Murray Butler, he discusses this new course and states that he considers the cure for the world's radicalism of today lies rather in education than in more strenuous methods...
...scientific investigation, peace is proclaimed (but a peace which is merely an armed trace), the public sits back, breathes a sigh of relief and forgets all about it. Industrial Conferences sit at Washington, break up and sit again, but leave us no nearer a definite industrial code or method of settling strikes than we were before...
...university thus acknowledges a responsibility of "developing so far as possible the student's capacity for a useful and fruitful life." Where the elective system laid emphasis upon a general method, the new system aims primarily at developing the individual man. NEW YOUR TIMES