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In play activity , it is said , the interest is in the activity for its own sake ; in work , it is in the product or result in which the activity terminates . Hence the former is purely free , while the latter is tied down by the end to ...
In play activity , it is said , the interest is in the activity for its own sake ; in work , it is in the product or result in which the activity terminates . Hence the former is purely free , while the latter is tied down by the end to ...
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To take an instance to which reference has already been made , the direct interest in carpentering or shopwork should gradually pass into an interest in geometric and mechanical problems . The interest in cooking should grow into an ...
To take an instance to which reference has already been made , the direct interest in carpentering or shopwork should gradually pass into an interest in geometric and mechanical problems . The interest in cooking should grow into an ...
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Much of the extraordinary interest that children take in planting seeds and watching the stages of their growth is due to the fact that a drama is enacting before their eyes ; there is something doing , each step of which is important ...
Much of the extraordinary interest that children take in planting seeds and watching the stages of their growth is due to the fact that a drama is enacting before their eyes ; there is something doing , each step of which is important ...
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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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