The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired … - John Dewey

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You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

John Dewey

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

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

Education, Process, Result, Social Justice

Instruction is important.

Important, Instruction

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.

Come, Dictation, Matter, Mind, Teacher, Teaching

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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Recruit entrepreneurial leaders and give them freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals must commit fully to the system you use and be held rigorously accountable for their objectives. You give them freedom, but freedom within a framework.

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Tim Lincecum

You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.

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The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

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Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact. . . that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

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