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The Magic of Common Sense
Author(s) -
Brock I. W.
Publication year - 1936
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1936.tb02680.x
Subject(s) - common sense , magic (telescope) , epistemology , yield (engineering) , linguistics , sociology , philosophy , astronomy , physics , materials science , metallurgy
Two fundamentally differing views of education account for the bewilderment and question of today. Among other things, a common‐sense appraisal will tell us that theory must yield to certain practical demands, that the primary concern of a language teacher should be language, and that panacean claims should be avoided.