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Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.
Democracy and Education (1916)
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct.
Democracy and Education (1916)
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
Democracy and Education (1916)
The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut off the mind from new stimuli. Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age.
Democracy and Education (1916)
Greek and medieval knowledge accepted the world in its qualitative variety, and regarded nature's processes as having ends, or in technical phrase as teleological. New science was expounded so as to deny the reality of all qualities in real, or objective, existence.
Democracy and Education (1916)
Some attitudes may be named... which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility.
Democracy and Education (1916)
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. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive.
Democracy and Education (1916)