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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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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
— Aesop
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show…
— George W. Bush
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No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws…
— Richard G. Scott
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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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…
— John Dewey
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What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn…
— George Washington
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This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is…
— Rajneesh
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of…
— Sarah Fielding
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I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own…
— Whitley Strieber
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Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for…
— Joe Abercrombie
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My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and…
— George H. W. Bush
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Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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