The universities have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civilization—the priests, the lawyers, the statesmen, the doctors, the men of science, and the men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations.
There is one great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort. In modern times this difficulty has even increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices. must be set to jobs which consist in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders. No president of a large corporation meets his youngest employee at his office door with the offer of the most responsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine, and only occasionally even see the president as he passes in and out of the building. Such work is a great dis
A. Prolonged and fixed routine work in the apprenticeship period.
B. The young employee’s seldom seeing the president of the company.
C. Universities’ failure to get young people ready for future work.
D. Young men having to obey orders in the early stage of their work.
There is a popular belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. No school I have taught in has ever ignored spelling or considered it unimportant as a basic skill.There are, however, vastly different ideas about how to teach it and how to encourage a child to write without holding him back with the complexities of spelling.
If spelling becomes the only focal point of his teacher’s interest, clearly a bright child willbe likely to "play safe", He will tend to write only words with in his spelling range, choosing to avoid adventurous language. That’s why teachers of ten encourage the early use of dictionaries andpay attention to content rather than technical ability.
I was once shocked to read on the bottom of a piece of writing about a personal experience:"This work is terrible! There are far too many spelling errors and your writing is not neat." Itmay have been a sharp criticism of the pupil’s techn
A. writing very neatly
B. focusing on the content of words
C. only using the words students can write
D. using the simplest words in writing
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