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The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
A monk received a visitor: a scholar who had spent years studying decision-making.
"I've analyzed hundreds of methods," the scholar declared, "yet still struggle to make choices. I've heard you make decisions with remarkable clarity."
"What's your secret?" https://t.co/rd0PICqVFo
A fascinating yet incredibly alarming aspect of this passage (see pics) is how the author keeps referring to truancy as an evil. He’s writing in 1896 about events (in this passage) that had occurred in the 1840s and 1850s. I’m *guessing* many of the proponents of that time had to have *some what* similar feelings about truancy and the need to make... See more
The ideology varies, at times, for subsequent generations but each of public schools’ greatest proponents sure are intent on *imposing* their values on all.
Excerpt from Social Ideas of American Educators:
It is clear [Horace] Mann’s social and educational philosophy was opposed to romantic... See more
aquinas heardx.comwhat an incipient Hell was breeding here!
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
The collection of manufacturing technologies developed by Hall, Blanchard, and, later, men like Thomas Warner and Cyrus Buckland at the Springfield Armory has been dubbed “Armory practice” by the historian David Hounshell, and was a key element in the American technologic gene pool. Merritt Roe Smith has traced the numerous skilled machinists who
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