experience is the life of the law

from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or … Continue reading →

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information assimilation and the life of the child

From Dewey’s The School and Society, p100: It was forgotten that the maximum appeal, and the full meaning in the life of the child, could be secured only when the studies were presented, not as bare external studies, but from … Continue reading →

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A word from the Reverend Billy…

From The Statement of Belief: The corporations want us to have experiences only through their products.