Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optimism always present during any football season, no matter how barren, had returned in almost full strength. The Columbia game was now only four days away; and the team had one of its best practices of the fall. Even the Ivy title was not lost. "If Bob Blackman can say Dartmouth is still in the running after a loss and a tie, then we certainly have a good chance," Haughie says. Ravenel predicts, "The Ivy champion will probably lose two games or so, and someone will beat Penn. We could be the team...
...historic address on his seventieth anniversary on October 19, 1929, I heard John Dewey say in New York, "...one of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, a career which somehow is congenial to one's own temperament. I have had the sheer luck or fortune to be engaged in the occupation of thinking; and while I am quite regular at my meals, I think that I may say that I would rather work, and perhaps even more, play, with ideas and with thinking than eat. That chance has been given...
...have come across in my educational studies are one by Rousseau: namely that education should be adapted to the heart of the pupil; and another by a Rabbi: "May the educators of youth not clip the wings of youth." I was therefore greatly interested in hearing John Dewey say, in the spring of 1931 before the Harvard Teachers Association, that there were two charges against education: It neglected to make an appeal to the imagination and to the emotions...
John Dewey continues to say that we should go "back (not to traditional Platonism, but) to the dramatic, restless, co-operatively inquiring Plato of the dialogues... whose highest flight of Metaphysics always terminated with a social and practical turn.... Upon the whole the forces that have influenced me have come from persons and from situations more than from books." He expressed the faith that the philosophy of the future would be characterized by unification or integration of thought without artificiality...
...would rather say meditation. All forms of poetry and art should also be very valuable to them...