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We Are Only Now On The Threshold Of Knowing The Range Of The Educability Of Man-the Perfectibility Of Man. We Have Never Addressed Ourselves To This Problem Before.

I Would Urge That The Yeast Of Education Is The Idea Of Excellence, And The Idea Of Excellence Comprises As Many Forms As There Are Individuals, Each Of Whom Develops His Own Image Of Excellence. The School Must Have As One Of Its Principal Functions The Nurturing Of Images Of Excellence.

We Carry With Us Habits Of Thought And Taste Fostered In Some Nearly Forgotten Classroom By A Certain Teacher.

The Agentive Mind Is Not Only Active In Nature, But It Seeks Out Dialogue And Discourse With Other Active Minds. And It Is Through This Dialogic, Discursive Process That We Come To Know The Other And His Points Of View, His Stories. We Learn An Enormous Amount Not Only About The World But About Ourselves By Discourse With Others.

We Cannot, Even Given Our Most Imaginative Efforts, Construct A Concept Of Self That Does Not Impute Some Causal Influence Of Prior Mental States On Later Ones.