A Philosophy of Education, Based on SourcesQuincy Adams Kuehner, Enoch George Payne Prentice-Hall, Incorporated, 1935 - 624 pages |
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Page 65
... Mechanism , Organism , and Purpose . The new cosmology is showing us that the concept of mechanism , while it is likely always to remain pragmatically valuable , is inapplicable to the ultimate data of physics . Hence the no- tion of ...
... Mechanism , Organism , and Purpose . The new cosmology is showing us that the concept of mechanism , while it is likely always to remain pragmatically valuable , is inapplicable to the ultimate data of physics . Hence the no- tion of ...
Page 74
... Mechanism has proved one of the most delusive . Mechanism is the abstract conception which corresponds to the concrete thing machine ; in origin it is a generalisation arrived at from the contemplation of actual machines . But every ...
... Mechanism has proved one of the most delusive . Mechanism is the abstract conception which corresponds to the concrete thing machine ; in origin it is a generalisation arrived at from the contemplation of actual machines . But every ...
Page 75
... mechanism while expressly excluding from the connotation of that word all reference to intelligence and purpose , you are explaining it in terms of something that never has existed and never could . Mechanism so conceived is pure symbol ...
... mechanism while expressly excluding from the connotation of that word all reference to intelligence and purpose , you are explaining it in terms of something that never has existed and never could . Mechanism so conceived is pure symbol ...
Contents
CONCEPTS OF PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOS | 27 |
NATURALISM IN EDUCATION | 53 |
PRAGMATISM IN EDUCATION | 80 |
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Abingdon action activity Agnosticism animal Appleton Aristotle become behavior believe Boston called cation cerned chapter character child civilization common conception Corporal punishments culture curriculum democracy educa Education New York Educational Psychology elements environment ethical existence experience fact function fundamental habits heredity HERMAN HARRELL Houghton Mifflin human ideal ideas identical elements important individual influence inheritance intellectual intelligence interest knowledge living Macmillan material means measure mechanism ment mental method mind modern moral nation nature objective organism personality philosophy of education physical Plato play possible practical pragmatism present principles problem progress psychology pupils purpose race reality realize relations religion religious education School Discipline scientific scientific method Scribner sense social society soul spirit teacher teaching tests theory things thought tion true truth universe values vidual whole WILLIAM WILLIAM H