[b]John Dewey
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs. [/b]
Fuck it then, he thought.
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
If [nowadays] only for fifteen minutes.
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
On the other hand, if you can read and write and do a little arithmetic, you can still be a wage slave.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
Next up: how [in conflict] the end justifies the means.
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
You know, for better or for worse.
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
Intrinsically worthwhile purposes? Ours you knucklehead!