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Failure to take the moving force of an experience into account so as to judge and
direct it on the ground of what it is moving into means disloyalty to the principle of
experience itself. The disloyalty operates in two directions. The educator is ...
Failure to take the moving force of an experience into account so as to judge and
direct it on the ground of what it is moving into means disloyalty to the principle of
experience itself. The disloyalty operates in two directions. The educator is ...
Page 82
... that a desire may be converted into a purpose and a purpose into a plan of
action. All of us have desires, all at least who have not become so pathological
that they are com— pletely apathetic. These desires are the ultimate moving
springs ...
... that a desire may be converted into a purpose and a purpose into a plan of
action. All of us have desires, all at least who have not become so pathological
that they are com— pletely apathetic. These desires are the ultimate moving
springs ...
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Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and
desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education
should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the
need ...
Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and
desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education
should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the
need ...
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Contents
THE NEED OF A THEORY OF | 12 |
PERIENCE I | 16 |
CRITERIA OF EXPERIENCE | 23 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Experience and Education Issue 10 of The Kappa Delta Pi lecture series |
| Author | John Dewey |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
| Length | 116 pages |
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