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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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The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
— John Banville
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as…
— John Berger
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater…
— Walter Scott
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it…
— John Marsden
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Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose…
— Vanna Bonta
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It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that…
— Thomas Paine
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In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of…
— John Dewey
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Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your…
— Vincent McNabb
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Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did…
— Christopher Hitchens
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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
— John Marsden
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