Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so … - John Dewey

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In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without these one] fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.

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

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Instruction is important.

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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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Homer

The journey is its own reward.

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Peter Kreeft

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

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Frederick Lenz

You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.

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Devendra Banhart

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B. "

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