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It Is Sentimentalism To Assume That The Teaching Of Life Can Always Be Fitted To The Child's Interests, Just As It Is Empty Formalism To Force The Child To Parrot The Formulas Of Adult Society. Interests Can Be Created And Stimulated.

Understanding Something In One Way Does Not Preclude Understanding It In Other Ways.

We Are Only Now On The Threshold Of Knowing The Range Of The Educability Of Man-the Perfectibility Of Man. We Have Never Addressed Ourselves To This Problem Before.

I Would Urge That The Yeast Of Education Is The Idea Of Excellence, And The Idea Of Excellence Comprises As Many Forms As There Are Individuals, Each Of Whom Develops His Own Image Of Excellence. The School Must Have As One Of Its Principal Functions The Nurturing Of Images Of Excellence.

We Cannot, Even Given Our Most Imaginative Efforts, Construct A Concept Of Self That Does Not Impute Some Causal Influence Of Prior Mental States On Later Ones.