Word: shop
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...gatherings for an exchange of ideas, the numerous outside speakers who are brought here formally or informally, give abundant proof that students are interested in other things than athletics or society. And when men who have now no apparent interest in their studies reach the law school, they talk "shop" from morning to night...
Several educators have tried to remedy the present situation by teaching in their schools shop-work, drawing, and music, and by placing these subjects where they belong,--on an equal basis with Greek, Latin, and History. The chief obstacle is the college entrance system. Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject...