Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 111
... intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous outreaching for the new which is the essence of the open mind . The mind that is open merely in the sense ...
... intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous outreaching for the new which is the essence of the open mind . The mind that is open merely in the sense ...
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... Intellectual Possibilities . These facts are full of educational significance . Most children are pre - eminently active in their tendencies . The schools have also taken on - largely from utilitarian , rather than from strictly ...
... Intellectual Possibilities . These facts are full of educational significance . Most children are pre - eminently active in their tendencies . The schools have also taken on - largely from utilitarian , rather than from strictly ...
Page 203
... intellectual good out of what persons and books have to communi- cate . How to Make an Intellectual Asset of Learning through Communicated Information . Doubtless the chief meaning associated with the word in- struction is this ...
... intellectual good out of what persons and books have to communi- cate . How to Make an Intellectual Asset of Learning through Communicated Information . Doubtless the chief meaning associated with the word in- struction is this ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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