“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.” ChildrenUseGivenTeacherTeachingObjectsActiveAgentsInstructionPrincipalEpistemologyPedagogy Author:Maria Montessori
“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.” WayMeanTwoImportantActionThreeForceInfluenceSubjectsObjectsPatientRateContraryAgentsPairsCooperationRelativeBrutesBrute Force Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.” LightFormNaturalObjectsPaintingPhotographyDrawingAgentsPlasticIndispensableModeling Book:A guide to better photography Source: A guide to better photography
“Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object” DifferentSelfSocialActingEnvironmentObjectsTheoryPerspectiveOneselfAgentsRejectsConceptionShiftingTransformingCognitiveSelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.” IdeasSelfAmericaChoicesEvilChanceQualityLibertyMoralFateObjectsMoralityCapableIntellectualDefinitionsAgentsAttributesIndifferentMetaphysicsImmoral Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.” PeopleWaySelfHelpingMightPurposeTurnsCoursesEffortFateObjectsReaderIntellectualDefenseAgentsDedicatedPassiveConsentSelf Defense Author:Noam Chomsky