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Page vi
... knowledge . And if this were not true , even the high - school pupil is not a child and must put away child- ish things . Not at all that I should expect or care that he be conscious of scientific experience , but that he should have ...
... knowledge . And if this were not true , even the high - school pupil is not a child and must put away child- ish things . Not at all that I should expect or care that he be conscious of scientific experience , but that he should have ...
Page 20
... knowledge and conviction of duty are vastly more essential to purposes of effective utterance than are laws of syntax and rhetoric . One cannot become a journalist by studying rules of editorial style and journ- alism . This can be ...
... knowledge and conviction of duty are vastly more essential to purposes of effective utterance than are laws of syntax and rhetoric . One cannot become a journalist by studying rules of editorial style and journ- alism . This can be ...
Page 21
... knowledge of notes and practice of nimble touches on . the key - board , to compose symphonies and conduct orchestras . What is really needed is a deep , an all - sided culture . Mathematics , science , history , and the wealth of the ...
... knowledge of notes and practice of nimble touches on . the key - board , to compose symphonies and conduct orchestras . What is really needed is a deep , an all - sided culture . Mathematics , science , history , and the wealth of the ...
Page 22
... knowledge ; a man sent by the gods to do honor to the world , and such as no preceding age has known ; a man in every way eminent and excel- lent , a thinker of the best thoughts and a speaker of the best words . " No one can be a ...
... knowledge ; a man sent by the gods to do honor to the world , and such as no preceding age has known ; a man in every way eminent and excel- lent , a thinker of the best thoughts and a speaker of the best words . " No one can be a ...
Page 34
... knowledge for its own sake . This process involves the sensibility and the will , as the mind must be stimulated by desire to re- ceive the truth , and the will must make effort to appropriate it ; yet the end is the knowledge gained ...
... knowledge for its own sake . This process involves the sensibility and the will , as the mind must be stimulated by desire to re- ceive the truth , and the will must make effort to appropriate it ; yet the end is the knowledge gained ...
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