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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 discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry…
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…
— John Dewey
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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind…
— John Zachary Young
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In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our…
— Rosalind Franklin
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Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest…
— Hannah More
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What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
— Vladimir Putin
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True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
— Paul Wellstone
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply…
— Paul Wellstone
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In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to…
— Rosalind Franklin
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