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About all it required in that line was a set of abstract words like culture, discipline,
our great cultural heritage, etc., actual guidance being derived not from them but
from custom and established routines. Just because progressive schools ...
About all it required in that line was a set of abstract words like culture, discipline,
our great cultural heritage, etc., actual guidance being derived not from them but
from custom and established routines. Just because progressive schools ...
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When preparation is made the controlling end, then the potentialities of the
present are sacrificed to a supposititious future. When this happens, the actual
preparation for the future is missed or distorted. The ideal of using the pres– ent
simply ...
When preparation is made the controlling end, then the potentialities of the
present are sacrificed to a supposititious future. When this happens, the actual
preparation for the future is missed or distorted. The ideal of using the pres– ent
simply ...
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what I have said I have taken for granted the soundness of the principle that
education in order to accomplish its ends both for the individual learner and for
society must be based upon experience—which is always the actual life-
experience of ...
what I have said I have taken for granted the soundness of the principle that
education in order to accomplish its ends both for the individual learner and for
society must be based upon experience—which is always the actual life-
experience of ...
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Contents
THE NEED OF A THEORY OF | 12 |
PERIENCE I | 16 |
CRITERIA OF EXPERIENCE | 23 |
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