George Trumbull Ladd famous quotes

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Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.
-- George Trumbull Ladd

#Education #Unity #Growth
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.
-- George Trumbull Ladd

#Philosophical #Views #Honor
It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.
-- George Trumbull Ladd

#Practice #Psychology #Students
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
-- George Trumbull Ladd

#Past #Views #Church
Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
-- George Trumbull Ladd

#Psychology #Mind #Limits
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
-- George Trumbull Ladd

#Dream #Dreamer #Assumption

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
This is what our love isâ€“â€“a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

George Trumbull Ladd famous quotes

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