The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society. |
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. |
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. |
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better |
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better |
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity. |
The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself |
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. |
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools |
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools |
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools |
The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures, ... But the cable itself is in good working order. |
The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures. But the cable itself is in good working order. |
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value. |
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. |