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“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.”

World Said Two Real Clear Groups Models Concepts Bases Aim Statistics Real World Equations Variables

Book:Models of man: social and rational; mathematical essays on rational human behavior in society setting

Source: Models of man: social and rational; mathematical essays on rational human behavior in society setting

“All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.”

Men Hard Nations Greater Groups College Higher Training Gold Aim Isolated Earning Toil Belly Aim High Yeast Earning A Living

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.”

Persons Important Social Groups Share Policy Personality Capacity Responsible Aim Educated Operations Proportion Social Groups Important Relationships

Book:Reconstruction in Philosophy

Source: Reconstruction in Philosophy

“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.”

Made Seems Interest Party Leader Class Groups Taught Limits Pressure Aim Democratic Following Factors Appeals Republic Unifying Pressure Groups Bismarck

Author:Paul Johnson

“In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.”

People May Mean Matter Order Interest Natural Hurt Pleasure Groups Ideals Aim No Matter What Interfere Natural Order

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.”

Feels Trying Wells Art Body Groups Performances Aim Architecture Flesh Performance Art

Author:Spencer Tunick

“The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.”

People World Book Ideas School Reading Wonderful Groups Reader Exciting Aim Library Exploring Literacy School Library Wonderful World

Author:Tessa Jowell