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Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
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Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
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Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.
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It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
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