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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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A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See…
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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
— John Dewey
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When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
— Andrew Sean Greer
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For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the…
— Hal Borland
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I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends…
— J I Packer
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Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter…
— Vera Nazarian
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
— Aeschylus
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The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike
— Shannon Hale
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As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
— Eric Greitens
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