 | National Association of State Universities - Universities and colleges - 1917 - 504 pages
...scientific attitude of mind is an essential element in a modern education and that in large measures the future of our civilization depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of this attitude. How to mature it and make it effective is, therefore, one of the great problems of a... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Research - 1916 - 382 pages
...believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. Huxley. The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. Prof. John Dewey. Occasionally, and frequently, the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute... | |
 | John Clarke - Education - 1919 - 452 pages
...teaching profession. If it be true, as Professor John Dewey says, that " the future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind," it becomes an urgent duty on the part of the university representatives of science to think out and... | |
 | Michigan Academy of Science. Council - Science - 1918 - 586 pages
...come only as the result of rigorous scientific endeavor. In the words of John Dewey: "the future of civilization depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind." A habit of mind whose sole desire is the extension of the boundaries of human knowledge. We must not... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Eugenics - 1921 - 332 pages
...integrative or evolutionary. Prof. John Dewey declared the other day that " the future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind ". We should be inclined to broaden the dictum, but in hoc signo labor emus. In the dif-. fusion of... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania. Zoological Laboratory - Zoology - 1925 - 678 pages
...things he knows out of his own experience ; for, as John Dewey has so well said — "The future of civilization depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. ' ' The almost purely disciplinary values in the learning process while in the general zoology laboratory... | |
 | American Statistical Association - Electronic journals - 1927 - 626 pages
...minds of thoughtful men on both sides of the Atlantic that the future of our civilization depends on the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind. These books are intellectual keys by which intelligent students can open doors that have hitherto been... | |
 | Education - 1924 - 324 pages
...child psychology may be as scientific as his colleague in the astronomical observatory. Dewey says "the future of our civilization depends upon the widening...and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind." Up to a certain point and in certain fields, men believe in science and never dream of dispensing with... | |
 | Illinois State Academy of Science - Science - 1928 - 998 pages
..."Today is better than yesterday; tomorrow will be better than today." Professor John Dewey once said, "The future of our civilization depends upon the widening...and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind." The work of discovery has been going on from year to year until now it is said that we have eighty-eight... | |
 | Open-air treatment - 1926 - 662 pages
...at night, And that's the reason no one sees him!" HORACE SMITH. PART FOUR WELL expressed it is, that "The future of our civilization depends upon the widening...and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind." It is the hope of the writer that this concept will encourage the reader to enjoy these narratives... | |
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One of the only two articles that remain in my creed of life is that the future of our civilization depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind... 
