Pub Date : 1946-01-01DOI: 10.1097/00004714-199212000-00016
C. Gauss
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HAVE often been told that the Chinese in their present epic struggle are fighting the battle of the democracies. Though most Americans concur in this statement they are not likely to agree on the sense in which it is to be understood or what qualifications, if any, are necessary. What has this ancient, loosely-organized state in common with us? What values in their culture are they fighting to preserve, which at the same time are relevant to us? Are there substantial
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to be enacted anew in every generation, in every year and day, in the living relations of person to person in all social forms and institutions. Forgetting this, we have allowed our economic and hence our political institutions to drift away from democracy; we have been negligent even in creating a school that should be the constant nurse of democracy. I conclude by saying that there is at least one thing in which the idea of democracy is not dim, however far short we have come from striving to make it reality. Our public school system was founded in the name of equality of opportunity for all, independent of birth, economic status, race, creed, or color. The school can not by itself alone create or embody this idea. But the least it can do is to create individuals who understand the concrete meaning of the idea with their minds, who cherish it warmly in their hearts, and who are equipped to battle in its behalf in their actions. Democracy also means voluntary choice, based on an intelligence that is the outcome of free association and communication with others. It means a way of living together in which mutual and free consultation rule instead of force, and in which cooperation instead of brutal competition is the law of life; a social order in which all the forces that make for friendship, beauty, and knowledge are cherished in order that each individual may become what he, and he alone, is capable of becoming. These things at least give a point of departure for the filling in of the democratic idea and aim as a frame of reference. If a sufficient number of educators devote themselves to striving courageously and with full sincerity to find the answers to the concrete questions which the idea and the aim put to us, I believe that the question of the relation of the schools to direction of social change will cease to be a question, and will become a moving answer in action.
{"title":"The Scholar and the Specialist","authors":"J. Angell","doi":"10.2307/40219909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/40219909","url":null,"abstract":"to be enacted anew in every generation, in every year and day, in the living relations of person to person in all social forms and institutions. Forgetting this, we have allowed our economic and hence our political institutions to drift away from democracy; we have been negligent even in creating a school that should be the constant nurse of democracy. I conclude by saying that there is at least one thing in which the idea of democracy is not dim, however far short we have come from striving to make it reality. Our public school system was founded in the name of equality of opportunity for all, independent of birth, economic status, race, creed, or color. The school can not by itself alone create or embody this idea. But the least it can do is to create individuals who understand the concrete meaning of the idea with their minds, who cherish it warmly in their hearts, and who are equipped to battle in its behalf in their actions. Democracy also means voluntary choice, based on an intelligence that is the outcome of free association and communication with others. It means a way of living together in which mutual and free consultation rule instead of force, and in which cooperation instead of brutal competition is the law of life; a social order in which all the forces that make for friendship, beauty, and knowledge are cherished in order that each individual may become what he, and he alone, is capable of becoming. These things at least give a point of departure for the filling in of the democratic idea and aim as a frame of reference. If a sufficient number of educators devote themselves to striving courageously and with full sincerity to find the answers to the concrete questions which the idea and the aim put to us, I believe that the question of the relation of the schools to direction of social change will cease to be a question, and will become a moving answer in action.","PeriodicalId":44462,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SCHOLAR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1937-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82563907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
paradox each time they feel symptoms of the Moral Urge. If universities are indeed anxious to serve the ultimate good of society, and not merely expedients of the moment, they must forget all about "right" and "wrong" and devote themselves solely to the search for truth not the mystical, upper-case Truth of the pulpit but simply the most inclusive picture of the real world available at that time.
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Pub Date : 1936-01-01DOI: 10.4135/9781446215692.n14
Murray Seasongood
{"title":"The Future of Local Government","authors":"Murray Seasongood","doi":"10.4135/9781446215692.n14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446215692.n14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44462,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SCHOLAR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81965673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
t I ^HE title of these remarks you will have recognized as I borrowed from the address delivered by Ralph Waldo JL Emerson before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa nearly a hundred years ago. This address remains the high water mark reached by the great annual tide of such orations ; and had it not been for the unreasonable prejudice against delivering orally anything that has already been printed I should have urged the authorities to permit the reading of Emerson's oration as the best possible way of initiating the series which begins tonight.
{"title":"The American Scholar Today","authors":"W. Neilson","doi":"10.2307/40219742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/40219742","url":null,"abstract":"t I ^HE title of these remarks you will have recognized as I borrowed from the address delivered by Ralph Waldo JL Emerson before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa nearly a hundred years ago. This address remains the high water mark reached by the great annual tide of such orations ; and had it not been for the unreasonable prejudice against delivering orally anything that has already been printed I should have urged the authorities to permit the reading of Emerson's oration as the best possible way of initiating the series which begins tonight.","PeriodicalId":44462,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN SCHOLAR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1936-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76551251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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