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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…
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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…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace…
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from…
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The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of…
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The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long…
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True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with…
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Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity,…
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me.…
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