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“The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.”

Children Use Given Teacher Teaching Objects Active Agents Instruction Principal Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Maria Montessori

“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”

Mind Wells Children Age Purpose Answers Five One Thing Objects Inspire Industry Habit Importance Twenties Prepared Active Observation Juvenile

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

“I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”

Effort Objects Advantage Election Active Pursuit Proportion Remarkable Decline Sanguine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.”

“Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.”

Voice Subjects Objects Active Passive Objectivity

Author:Emily Levine

“The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”

Matter Use Form Cities Influence Objects Ordinary Areas Edges Active Borders Massive Territory Passive Perimeter

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.”

World Trying Play Use Roles Destiny Influence Objects Trump Involved Active Cards Helpless Negotiation Our Destiny World Power

Author:Alija Izetbegovic

“I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.”

I Can Use Eye Greater Subjects Objects Produce Projects Cameras Photographer Active Impression Landscape

Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs

Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs

“Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.”

People Way Looks Country States Political United Party United States Objects Members Europe Election Active Other Countries Passive Political Parties Submissive

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.”

Long Country Fighting Term Roles Movement Objects Active Communism Long Term Communist Short Term

Book:No Easy Walk to Freedom

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom