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 172
... PLAY , WORK , AND ALLIED FORMS OF ACTIVITY The Significance of Play and of Playfulness . When things become signs , when they gain a representative capacity as standing for other things , play is transformed from mere physical ...
... PLAY , WORK , AND ALLIED FORMS OF ACTIVITY The Significance of Play and of Playfulness . When things become signs , when they gain a representative capacity as standing for other things , play is transformed from mere physical ...
Page 173
... play is the chief , almost the only , mode of education for the child in the years of later infancy . Playfulness is a more important consideration than play . The former is an attitude of mind ; the latter is a passing outward ...
... play is the chief , almost the only , mode of education for the child in the years of later infancy . Playfulness is a more important consideration than play . The former is an attitude of mind ; the latter is a passing outward ...
Page 209
... Play Attitude . The intellectual harm accruing from divorce of work and play , product and process , is evidenced in the proverb , " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . ” That the obverse is true is perhaps sufficiently ...
... Play Attitude . The intellectual harm accruing from divorce of work and play , product and process , is evidenced in the proverb , " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . ” That the obverse is true is perhaps sufficiently ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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