Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of EducationCentury Company, 1918 - 418 páginas |
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Página vii
... past , and of certain traditional survivals of the past that still remain with us . The modern , Western world pro- fesses to have taken democracy as its political goal ; certain of the peoples of this Western world profess to have ...
... past , and of certain traditional survivals of the past that still remain with us . The modern , Western world pro- fesses to have taken democracy as its political goal ; certain of the peoples of this Western world profess to have ...
Página viii
... past , it is of the very logic of democracy that it must some day be based upon intelli- gence and moral freedom , rather than upon force . Hence the ultimate problem of democracy becomes the problem of education . Two items become ...
... past , it is of the very logic of democracy that it must some day be based upon intelli- gence and moral freedom , rather than upon force . Hence the ultimate problem of democracy becomes the problem of education . Two items become ...
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... past , and largely even to - day , we find such groups . They were , and are , people who live in very primitive fashion , with- out the tools that we have and use , and without the knowledge or broad experience which mark " civilized ...
... past , and largely even to - day , we find such groups . They were , and are , people who live in very primitive fashion , with- out the tools that we have and use , and without the knowledge or broad experience which mark " civilized ...
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... past . If we are dissatisfied with some of the practices and ideals of the past , that is no reason for uncritically discarding all the past . The very possibility of successful inventiveness implies real acquaintance with what has gone ...
... past . If we are dissatisfied with some of the practices and ideals of the past , that is no reason for uncritically discarding all the past . The very possibility of successful inventiveness implies real acquaintance with what has gone ...
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... past , and largely even to - day , we find such groups . They were , and are , people who live in very primitive fashion , with- out the tools that we have and use , and without the knowledge or broad experience which mark " civilized ...
... past , and largely even to - day , we find such groups . They were , and are , people who live in very primitive fashion , with- out the tools that we have and use , and without the knowledge or broad experience which mark " civilized ...
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Página 339 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Página 117 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ; who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Página 132 - And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
Página 88 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Página 264 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 121 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Página 255 - For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy, and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Página 144 - I hear the Florentine, who from his palace Wheels out his battle-bell with dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin; The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers...
Página 282 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 49 - I will transmit my fatherland, not only not less, but greater and better, than it was transmitted to me.