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John Dewey
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Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening the spiritual basis of the American Creed. That is how Jefferson understood it, how Horace Mann understood it, how John Dewey understood it, and in fact, there is no other way to understand it. The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent
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― The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
― The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
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Dynamic equivalence is a central concept in the translation theory, developed by Eugene A. Nida, which has been widely adopted by the United Bible Societies...Purporting to be an academically linguistic concept, it is in fact a sociocultural concept of communication. Its definition is essentially behavourist: determined by external forces, such as society--with strong pragmatist overtones--focusing on the reader rather than the writer. [M]ost twentieth-century American philosophical endeavours a
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― The Lord has preserved His Word: The doctrine of Holy Scripture, its providential preservation and its faithful translation
― The Lord has preserved His Word: The doctrine of Holy Scripture, its providential preservation and its faithful translation
