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In a ticklish situation we have to observe very carefully just what the conditions
are, as in climbing a steep and rough mountain where no trail has been laid out.
Exercise of observation is, then, one condition of transformation of impulse into a
...
In a ticklish situation we have to observe very carefully just what the conditions
are, as in climbing a steep and rough mountain where no trail has been laid out.
Exercise of observation is, then, one condition of transformation of impulse into a
...
Page 81
not provide the model for education. The crucial educational problem is that of
procuring the postponement of immediate action upon desire until observation
and judgment have intervened. Unless I am mistaken, this point is definitely
relevant ...
not provide the model for education. The crucial educational problem is that of
procuring the postponement of immediate action upon desire until observation
and judgment have intervened. Unless I am mistaken, this point is definitely
relevant ...
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It thus becomes the office of the educator to select those things within the range
of existing experience that have the promise and potentiality of presenting new
problems which by stimulating new ways of observation and judgment will
expand ...
It thus becomes the office of the educator to select those things within the range
of existing experience that have the promise and potentiality of presenting new
problems which by stimulating new ways of observation and judgment will
expand ...
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Contents
THE NEED OF A THEORY OF EX PERIENCE | 12 |
CRITERIA OF EXPERIENCE | 23 |
SOCIAL CONTROL | 53 |
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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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