"Indictment of Modern Schools"
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"Indictment of Modern Schools"
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"In developing knowledge men must collaborate with their ancestors." -Walter Lippman In 1940, Walter Lippman delivered the following speech entitled, "The State of Education in this Troubled Age: A Sweeping...
show moreIn 1940, Walter Lippman delivered the following speech entitled, "The State of Education in this Troubled Age: A Sweeping Indictment of Modern Schools and Colleges" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Lippman was one of his era's greatest minds and one of America's top journalists and authors. He won two Pulitzer Prizes and was also part of the establishment of modern social psychology and propaganda along with Edward Bernays. His speech has startling warnings regarding the dangers of throwing out cultural traditions which leave us sailing without a rudder in a stormy sea of life trying to figure out how to re-invent the wheel--it does not have to be this way. Correct the course!
*Source: https://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1940/1940-12-29b.html
*Photo by Ron Jones
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