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... achievements . But this spirit of satisfaction has of late been rudely disturbed by the indictments brought against the results of our labor . From superficial kindergarten to superficial college , our education , say the critics ...
... achievements . But this spirit of satisfaction has of late been rudely disturbed by the indictments brought against the results of our labor . From superficial kindergarten to superficial college , our education , say the critics ...
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... into a question of the relative importance of nature and of nurture in determining the achievement of the individual . In this part of the discussion we are to inquire concerning the degree in which the child's endowment GENERAL MEETINGS.
... into a question of the relative importance of nature and of nurture in determining the achievement of the individual . In this part of the discussion we are to inquire concerning the degree in which the child's endowment GENERAL MEETINGS.
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... achievement normally possible . When we ask in how far and in what way the child is born free , we are concerned simply with the possi- bility of accomplishment for the individual under the most favorable con- ditions . In the terms of ...
... achievement normally possible . When we ask in how far and in what way the child is born free , we are concerned simply with the possi- bility of accomplishment for the individual under the most favorable con- ditions . In the terms of ...
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... achievement , but this may not be interpreted to mean that the child is not free in the sense that he may not achieve more if properly nurtured than he will if neglected or oppressed . If we inquire concerning the physical basis of ...
... achievement , but this may not be interpreted to mean that the child is not free in the sense that he may not achieve more if properly nurtured than he will if neglected or oppressed . If we inquire concerning the physical basis of ...
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... achievement are present . Children are born neither moral nor immoral but rather unmoral . Growth in morality is just as natural as is growth in the opposite direction . Once intelligence enters , the child is put in a position where he ...
... achievement are present . Children are born neither moral nor immoral but rather unmoral . Growth in morality is just as natural as is growth in the opposite direction . Once intelligence enters , the child is put in a position where he ...
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Page 46 - tis ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, that they call my father'B name ? Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.
Page 179 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 99 - Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame ; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame ; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 48 - ... for attaining our end, we must also include the whole science of Medicine, and, as many difficult things are by contrivance rendered easy, and we can in this way gain much time and convenience, the science of Mechanics must in no way be despised.
Page 99 - It is believed that a leading aim in history teaching is to help the child to appreciate what his fellows are doing and to help him to intelligent voluntary action in agreement or disagreement with them.
Page 179 - Truth crushed to earth will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers; While error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Page 40 - Who knows but he, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 48 - Education " for the most part signifies giving people the faculty of thinking wrong on every conceivable subject of importance to them.
Page 24 - ... of Art, not yet subdued by practice and general consent to a definiteness of accentuation essential to ease and congruity of metrical arrangement. Had he been born fifty years later, his ripened manhood would have found itself in an England absorbed and angry with the solution of political and religious problems, from which his whole nature was averse...
Page 108 - But who shall decide this question of interference? To whom lies the last appeal? This, sir, the Constitution itself decides, also, by declaring, " that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States.