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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…
• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
• Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
• Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to…
• The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free…
• I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…
• I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of…
• I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is…
• I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
• The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…
• Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
• Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

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