The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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A child cannot be educated for author- ity on lesser books , with sophisticated people , with pointless play instead of work , with ordered lessons in school in place of the dear disorder ...
A child cannot be educated for author- ity on lesser books , with sophisticated people , with pointless play instead of work , with ordered lessons in school in place of the dear disorder ...
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The educating process is started wrong , and started too early . It should start with work . Watch a child at mud - pies or building a dam . Such in- tense application , such concentrated effort , such complete abandon ! Play ?
The educating process is started wrong , and started too early . It should start with work . Watch a child at mud - pies or building a dam . Such in- tense application , such concentrated effort , such complete abandon ! Play ?
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The poet answers : ' Nature is my authority , " And that auxiliar light Which on the setting sun bestows new splendor . ' Yet the schools overflow , as if author- ity were there ! Students come to paint and to play , before they learn ...
The poet answers : ' Nature is my authority , " And that auxiliar light Which on the setting sun bestows new splendor . ' Yet the schools overflow , as if author- ity were there ! Students come to paint and to play , before they learn ...
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But I should say that the danger of the film- play is due rather to its wide dispersion than to its actual badness . That is : if one bad picture is released , a million people will see it ; whereas a dozen bad plays reach only a very ...
But I should say that the danger of the film- play is due rather to its wide dispersion than to its actual badness . That is : if one bad picture is released , a million people will see it ; whereas a dozen bad plays reach only a very ...
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The mass of the peo- ple who go to them constantly , year in and year out , are the people who never went , and never would go , year in and year out , to ordinary plays . The movie public is not taking the country through , as I say ...
The mass of the peo- ple who go to them constantly , year in and year out , are the people who never went , and never would go , year in and year out , to ordinary plays . The movie public is not taking the country through , as I say ...
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