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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses…

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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is…
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and…
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still…
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given…
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

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