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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simp...more

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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

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As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the qu...more

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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingl...more

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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

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Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say ...more

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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth somethin...more

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We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not consc...more

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While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own fu...more

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Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling le...more

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A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse converts it into a desire. Nevertheless neither ...more

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Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive educatio...more

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A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with li...more

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and tr...more