Social Beliefs and Attitudes of American Educators, Tema 294Teachers college, Columbia university, 1927 - 91 páginas |
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Social Beliefs and Attitudes of American Educators, Tema 294 Manly H. Harper Sin vista previa disponible - 1927 |
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adapted to reflective American educators average bachelor's degree beliefs and attitudes CALVIN COOLIDGE cents of agreement Chapter cleavage Columbia University comparison conceptions and issues conservatism-liberalism-radicalism consistency of thinking constitutes correlation courses difference direction divisions of educators Doctor of Philosophy economic educa educators tested eighth grade exceptionally non-conservative group experience extent of education fundamental gain in score give given government ownership graduate educators graph group of propositions groups and aggregates high school higher inconsistency increases in scores independence of thinking individual inquiry John Dewey judges labor less conservative liberal marked Master's degree measure median score method National Security League opinion phases position present radical reaction reflective thinking Relation to Scores relative reliability Religious Denomination representative aggregate resources adapted retest school of education scientific attitude semester hours shown social beliefs social order social problems teachers teaching tion tism trait validity various York
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Página 25 - If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Página 14 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 14 - State to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach, instead, that man has descended from a lower order of animals.
Página 13 - The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.
Página 26 - Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
Página 24 - A society which is mobile,. which is full of channels for the distribution of a change* occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are' -educated to personal initiative and adaptability.
Página 25 - But it is not the minds of heretics that are deteriorated most by the ban placed on all inquiry which does not end in the orthodox conclusions. The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed by the fear of heresy.
Página 13 - Let us not say to ourselves that the best truth always lies in moderation, in the decent average. This would perhaps be so if the majority did not think on a much lower plane than is needful.
Página 25 - Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?
Página 26 - Not that it is solely, or chiefly, to form great thinkers that freedom of thinking is required. On the contrary, it is as much, and even more, indispensable to enable average human beings to attain the mental stature which they are capable of.