Educational Ideas in America: A Documentary HistoryS. Alexander Rippa |
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... means freedom to every child . WILLIAM JAMES Pragmatism ( 1907 ) * LECTURE II " What Pragmatism Means ” The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable . Is the world one ...
... means freedom to every child . WILLIAM JAMES Pragmatism ( 1907 ) * LECTURE II " What Pragmatism Means ” The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable . Is the world one ...
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... means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up . It means the open air and possibilities of nature , as against dogma , artificiality , and the pretence of finality in truth . At the same time it does ...
... means the empiricist temper regnant and the rationalist temper sincerely given up . It means the open air and possibilities of nature , as against dogma , artificiality , and the pretence of finality in truth . At the same time it does ...
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... means the same thing that it means in science . It means , they say , nothing but this , that ideas ( which themselves are but parts of our experience ) become true just in so far as they help us to get into satis- factory relation with ...
... means the same thing that it means in science . It means , they say , nothing but this , that ideas ( which themselves are but parts of our experience ) become true just in so far as they help us to get into satis- factory relation with ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
RENAISSANCE IDEALS | 18 |
COLONIAL VIEWS ON EDUCATION | 32 |
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