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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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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
— David Hume
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to…
— Unknown Author
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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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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been…
— Alfred Adler
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects…
— John Ruskin
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Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.
— Blake Griffin
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit…
— Humphry Davy
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Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It…
— Augustin Thierry
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity…
— Edward Snowden
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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