Knowledge is humanistic in ...

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.
Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.
 John Dewey

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Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
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 John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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 John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
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 John Dewey