Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom: Selections from Great DocumentsRobert Ulich Harvard University Press, 1954 - 668 pages "Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom" is an anthology of writings on education by great thinkers including Plato, Descartes, Dewey and Emerson taken from texts from Asia, Greek and Roman antiquity, ancient and medieval Christianity, Islam, the Judaic tradition and modern education. -- From product description. |
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Page 287
... experience in the conflicts of human nature that scepticism offered itself as the most ade- quate position . " Que sais - je ? " - " What do I know ? " - so he wrote under his coat of arms . Yet , though he denies the possibility of ...
... experience in the conflicts of human nature that scepticism offered itself as the most ade- quate position . " Que sais - je ? " - " What do I know ? " - so he wrote under his coat of arms . Yet , though he denies the possibility of ...
Page 510
... experience can imagine how rapidly even carefully implanted and cultivated knowledge vanishes under new conditions . They only can believe how easily new opinions and ambitions emerge and how irresistibly a person is attracted by ...
... experience can imagine how rapidly even carefully implanted and cultivated knowledge vanishes under new conditions . They only can believe how easily new opinions and ambitions emerge and how irresistibly a person is attracted by ...
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... experience and as furnishing tools by which that experience can be more easily and effectively regulated . At present we lose much of the value of literature and language studies because of our elimination of the social element ...
... experience and as furnishing tools by which that experience can be more easily and effectively regulated . At present we lose much of the value of literature and language studies because of our elimination of the social element ...
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