The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, … - John Dewey

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The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

John Dewey

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff. "

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The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

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Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. , that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

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Hunger not to have, but to be

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Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

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