Quotes 21 till 38 of 38.
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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
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Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
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We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
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We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
In Helen Keller, The Story of My Life -
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
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