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"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."
"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."
"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."
"The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice."
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