Quotes about mean
mean
Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up. John Dewey
mean propose
When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.
mean intelligent matter
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
mean men democracies-have
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
mean responsibility exercise
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.
mean desire used
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
mean democracy culture
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
mean thinking students
You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
mean independent mind
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
mean effectiveness matter
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
mean trying identity
While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.
mean systematic
Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.
mean helping
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.
mean ingredients study
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
mean opportunity political
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?
mean environment life-means
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
mean school office
The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.
mean
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.
mean doe belief
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
mean intelligent thinking
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.
mean use needs
I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need. John Cale
mean want minimalist
I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
mean poverty
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means. John Calipari
mean thinking goal
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own. John Carroll
mean passion expression
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.
mean thinking views
It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory. John Calvin
mean humility passion
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
mean men determined
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
mean guilt innocence
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
mean repentance distinguished
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
mean two golden
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
mean wish ifs
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
mean insanity christ
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.