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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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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple…
— John Adams
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly.…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has…
— John Bunyan
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Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation…
— John Bunyan
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Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know…
— William O. Douglas
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For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is…
— John Baillie
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Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested…
— Thomas Chalmers
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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly…
— Matthew Henry
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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it;…
— Thomas Boston
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