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[Nov. 21st, 2020|05:42 am] |
Rigōr dimd, Rigōr dimd, kas to Rigōr dimdināj?
Jūlijs Samners Millers
Julius Sumner Miller was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, as the youngest of nine children. His father was Latvian and his Lithuanian mother spoke 12 languages.
Miller graduated with a master's degree in physics from Boston University in 1933. Due to the Great Depression, he and his wife Alice (née Brown) worked as a butler and maid for a wealthy Boston doctor for the next two years. They had no children, but he was to reach millions of children through his popular science programs.
Miller was intolerant of misspelled words and misplaced punctuation, and often angered his colleagues because he charged that the students of most faculties were not learning enough. During an interview in the 1940s, he stated that intellectual life in America was in trouble, a belief he held for the rest of his life:
We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor. |
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![[User Picture]](http://klab.lv/userpic/151359/18131) | | From: | ![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif) bozena |
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| Date: | November 21st, 2020 - 09:43 am |
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Riktīgi interesanti! Paldies! :)
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| Date: | November 21st, 2020 - 10:17 am |
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