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“The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.”

Ideas Facts Problem Home School Given Attention Situation Principles Discipline Mark Rewards Promotion Premium

Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education

“Attention spans are shrinking on a daily basis, and it's getting harder to make an impression that lasts. So the fact that we were able to make a mark in a way that led to the continued relevance of the record is kind of crazy. I'm in awe of that.”

Way Kind Facts Able Lasts Attention Records Crazy Bases Harder Mark Impression Awe Relevance Shrinking Attention Span

Author:Sam Fogarino

“A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.”

Attention Mark Constant Piety

Book:Works: With the Last Corrections of the Author

Source: Works: With the Last Corrections of the Author

“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.”

“I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.”

Believe Ideas Reality Used Individual I Believe Attention Moral Mark Active Agents Characteristics

Book:The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

Source: The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts