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Correlative False Notions of Imagination and Utility . The sharp opposi- tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood ...
Correlative False Notions of Imagination and Utility . The sharp opposi- tion of play and work is usually associated with false notions of utility and imagination . Activity that is directed upon matters of home and neighbor- hood ...
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First , the healthy imagination deals not with the unreal , but with the mental realization of what is suggested . Its exercise is not a flight into the purely fanciful and ideal , but a method of expanding and filling in what is real .
First , the healthy imagination deals not with the unreal , but with the mental realization of what is suggested . Its exercise is not a flight into the purely fanciful and ideal , but a method of expanding and filling in what is real .
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The need for both imagination and observation in every mental enterprise illustrates another aspect of the same principle . Teachers who have tried object lessons of the conventional type have usually found that , when the lessons were ...
The need for both imagination and observation in every mental enterprise illustrates another aspect of the same principle . Teachers who have tried object lessons of the conventional type have usually found that , when the lessons were ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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