...attitude is equally marked. The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....competitive \ one, in the bad sense of that term — a compari- >. <_A son of results in the recitation or in the exami- ' ^p^nation to see which child has...

...are eminently wanting. . . . The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....in success thereat. Indeed, almost the only measure of success is a competitive one, in the bad sense of that term — a comparison of results in the recitation...

...mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat. Indeed, almost the only measure of success is a competitive one. in the bad sense of that term, — a comparison of results in the recitation or in the examination to see which child has succeeded in getting ahead...

...absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very materially to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social...there is no clear social gain in success thereat, where the school work consists in simply learning lessons, mutual assistance, instead of being the...

...medium in which the conditions of the social spirit are eminently wanting. clusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....one, in the bad sense of that term — a comparison of results in the recitation or in the examination to see which child has succeeded in getting ahead...

...attitude is equally marked. The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....one, in the bad sense of that term — a comparison of results in the recitation or in the examination to see which child has succeeded in getting ahead...

...attitude is equally marked. The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....one, in the bad sense of that term — a comparison of results in the recitation or in the examination to see which child has succeeded in getting ahead...

...attitude is equally marked. The mere absorbing of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....one, in the bad sense of that term — a comparison of results in the recitation or in the examination to see which child has succeeded in getting ahead...

...and evil. "The mere absorption of facts and truths," wrote Dewey, "is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquisition of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat." • The obsession...

...vowed to destroy. "The mere absorbing of facts and truths," he wrote, "is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness....social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, and there is no clear social gain in success thereat." (John Dewey, The School And Society, University...