LET’S GET TOGETHER LAST June a great many children and parents and teachers faced disappointment and discouragement, and wondered why. The children for the most part agreed that their teachers expected too much of them and “never explained anything;” also that their parents “didn’t understand.” The parents with e... continued
Oxford Debating Team in America
August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
THE WORLD’S GREATEST DEBATING SOCIETY THE visit of an Oxford Union debating team to American shores, as Mr. George Moore pointed out in these columns, is a new thing in the relations of English and American universities. It is a new thing for the Union. The visit is bound to start comparisons of standards and values. That these may be just a... continued
Wisdom in Life
January 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
YOU CAN MAKE LIFE SIMPLE ONE of the most constant illusions among all classes of men is that the so-called “deep” subjects are uninteresting and hard to understand. They have been made deadly dull by a whole succession of writers who, in order to make themselves important, have used a whole lot of big words to obscure their meaning. The... continued
Choosing the Correct Job
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
IT would be well for all of us in general, and for the coming generation in particular, if Secretary of Labor Davis’s article in The Outlook for August 9 were taken seriously to heart both by parents and by educators. If our various educational systems have one thing in common, it is the serious lack of attention given to matters most intimat... continued
Oxford Debates in America
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There is at present in this country a debating team from the University of Oxford. Already Oxford has met Bates on its home grounds. The decision in favor of Bates was rendered both by judges, according to the American plan, and the audience, according to the British method. An editorial discussion of Anglo-American methods of college debating has ... continued