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Schools Are Not Intended To Moralize A Wicked World, But To Impart Knowledge And Develop Intelligence, With Only Two Social Aims In Mind: Prepare To Take On One's Share In The World's Work, And Perhaps In Addition, Lend A Hand In Improving Society, After Schooling Is Done.

Time And Rest Are Needed For Absorption. Psychologists Confirm That It Is Really In The Summer That Our Muscles Learn To Skate And In The Winter, How To Swim.

The Sole Justification Of Teaching, Of The School Itself, Is That The Student Comes Out Of It Able To Do Something He Could Not Do Before. I Say Do And Not Know, Because Knowledge That Doesn't Lead To Doing Something New Or Doing Something Better Is Not Knowledge At All.

In Ordinary Speech The Words Perception And Sensation Tend To Be Used Interchangeably, But The Psychologist Distinguishes. Sensations Are The Items Of Consciousness--a Color, A Weight, A Texture--that We Tend To Think Of As Simple And Single. Perceptions Are Complex Affairs That Embrace Sensation Together With Other, Associated Or Revived Contents Of The Mind, Including Emotions.

We Are Accustomed To The Artist Scoundrel Or Specialist In Vice, And Unaccustomed To The Creator In Whom Passion And Reason And Moral Integrity Hold In Balance. But Greatness Of Intellect And Feeling, Or Soul And Conduct - Magnanimity, In Short - Does Occur; It Is Not A Myth For Boy Scouts, And Its Reality Is Important, If Only To Give Us The True Range Of The Term "human," Which We So Regularly Define By Its Lower Reaches.