Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above character. It was held that all learning was of equal educational value, provided only that it was scientifically pursued. History became a searching of documents; literature became philology. Shakespeare and Chaucer were no more important than the dullest Middle-English dialect. The result was that the field...
...Wyman makes it plain that "disloyal citizens and spies" are the ones to be "used as targets for a firing squad." In this he is perfectly right, and I know from experience, gained in the last two or three years, that the firing squad is an easy and effective method of getting rid of such traitors and criminals...
...chief difficulty in discussing education lies in the fact that we are hidebound by tradition. The school world has not realized that the schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of even fifteen years ago, and still we are trying to develop scholars by the method which our forefathers decided was best to produce the student...