Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of EducationCentury Company, 1918 - 418 páginas |
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... customs and traditions of the centuries ; we have built substantial habits . But now we are looking for some- thing more adequate to the task . America has been a land of inventiveness in the field of mechanics . Should not something of ...
... customs and traditions of the centuries ; we have built substantial habits . But now we are looking for some- thing more adequate to the task . America has been a land of inventiveness in the field of mechanics . Should not something of ...
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... custom . " Whatever is customary " is moral ; the immoral is seen in any failure to keep to the customary line of action . And custom comes to have all the sacredness of a religious rite . It is not proper for any one to question the ...
... custom . " Whatever is customary " is moral ; the immoral is seen in any failure to keep to the customary line of action . And custom comes to have all the sacredness of a religious rite . It is not proper for any one to question the ...
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... Custom is as much a part of the ac- tual order of creation as are the mountains or the stars . Now in such a group , whether ancient and primitive or modern and secluded , as long as the conditions of living remain fairly fixed , these ...
... Custom is as much a part of the ac- tual order of creation as are the mountains or the stars . Now in such a group , whether ancient and primitive or modern and secluded , as long as the conditions of living remain fairly fixed , these ...
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... custom and tradition until each be- comes a complete ceremonial . The individual member of the group is allowed no freedom of initiative in the making of new modes of activity , or in the remaking of old modes , From birth to death he ...
... custom and tradition until each be- comes a complete ceremonial . The individual member of the group is allowed no freedom of initiative in the making of new modes of activity , or in the remaking of old modes , From birth to death he ...
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... custom . History is , as we shall see , the story of the continuous movement of the race toward more effect- ive folkway controls , on the one hand , with an occasional experience of crisis , involving the possible application of ...
... custom . History is , as we shall see , the story of the continuous movement of the race toward more effect- ive folkway controls , on the one hand , with an occasional experience of crisis , involving the possible application of ...
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Página 345 - 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 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 268 - 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 123 - 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 119 - ... 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 259 - 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 146 - 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 119 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Página 49 - I will transmit my fatherland, not only not less, but greater and better, than it was transmitted to me.
Página 289 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.