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- I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in…
- The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is…
- That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
- To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
- All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
- What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By…
- Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
- It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to…
- Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
- It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,…
- Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.
- Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
- If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
- Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
- Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
- All genuine education comes about through experience.
- Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of…
- There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished…
- In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it…
- Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray