Search Details

Word: polymath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...synthesis of even the major findings of modern knowledge could be caught in a two-year curriculum if we continue to teach entirely in terms of the subjects and departments that are today the basis of instruction, unless each subject were to be taught by a polymath like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Adam Smith, or Thomas Henry Buckle. It may be there-fore, that we shall find that the only way we can manage to induct students into a general understanding of their civilization will be to teach during these two "general" years in terms of situations rather than subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Next