Tag: John Dewey
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Independence Day
It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared […]
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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The words for meditation today were: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – G.K. Chesterton [It’s a lovely sentiment, but once I checked it out in context, I wasn’t entirely sure I thought I liked it quite as well. It’s from A […]
Matters of Interpretation 