The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare man...kind for all its later surprises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they... knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally e...ducative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or informa...tion and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of t...he experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself a...nd yet never escapes itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of is ...the reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thing... that it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »