George Trumbull Ladd quotes
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“Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.”
-- George Trumbull LaddSource : George Trumbull Ladd (1899). “Essays on the Higher Education”
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“A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.”
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“It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.”
-- George Trumbull LaddSource : George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of Mind”, Ams PressInc
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“To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.”
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“Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.”
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“Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.”
-- George Trumbull LaddSource : George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of mind”, p.141, Рипол Классик
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Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1989.
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
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Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers
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“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
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