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Well researched and engrossing. Hofstadter delineates between the rise of the "one hundred percent mentality"--a proto-fundamentalist "desire to strike back against anything modern" (rational criticism, evolutionism, a social gospel, etc), and the church-goer that was open to progression, skepticism, and valued education. The former thrills in "chasing phantoms" in an "arena of conflict" vs. empirical understanding.
— Jan 15, 2026 03:37PM
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Dave J.
is on page 354 of 434
"In the name of utility, democracy, and science, many educators had
come to embrace the supposedly uneducable or less educable child as
the center of the secondary-school universe, relegating the talented
child to the sidelines.... This group has indeed been neglected by many educators and looked upon...as a deviant, a side issue, a special problem, at times even a kind of pathology."
— Feb 03, 2026 05:05AM
come to embrace the supposedly uneducable or less educable child as
the center of the secondary-school universe, relegating the talented
child to the sidelines.... This group has indeed been neglected by many educators and looked upon...as a deviant, a side issue, a special problem, at times even a kind of pathology."
Dave J.
is on page 308 of 434
"We cannot know, of course, how much impact the content of school
readers had on the minds of children. But any child who accepted
the attitudes prevalent...would have come to think of
scholarship and the fine arts as embellishments identified with the
inferior society of Europe, would have thought of art primarily with
regard to its services to nationality...[and] its contributions to character."
— Feb 01, 2026 11:50AM
readers had on the minds of children. But any child who accepted
the attitudes prevalent...would have come to think of
scholarship and the fine arts as embellishments identified with the
inferior society of Europe, would have thought of art primarily with
regard to its services to nationality...[and] its contributions to character."
Dave J.
is on page 236 of 434
"The freedom of intellect and art is inevitably the freedom to
criticize and disparage, to destroy and re-create; but the daily necessity of the intellectual and the artist is to be an employee, a protégé, a beneficiary.... The anti-intellectualism of businessmen, interpreted narrowly as hostility to intellectuals...is part of the extensive American devotion to practicality."
— Jan 24, 2026 10:10AM
criticize and disparage, to destroy and re-create; but the daily necessity of the intellectual and the artist is to be an employee, a protégé, a beneficiary.... The anti-intellectualism of businessmen, interpreted narrowly as hostility to intellectuals...is part of the extensive American devotion to practicality."
