You Learn by LivingHarper, 1960 - 211 pages "Never, perhaps, have any of us needed as much as we do today to use all the curiosity we have, needed to seek new knowledge, needed to realize that no knowledge is terminal. For almost eveything in the world is new; startlingly new"....Elli Roosevelt's Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... Everything I did with my father remains in my memory today , a vivid moment not to be forgotten . I remember stand- ing on the edge of Vesuvius with him while he threw in a penny , which came back covered with lava . There was excite ...
... Everything I did with my father remains in my memory today , a vivid moment not to be forgotten . I remember stand- ing on the edge of Vesuvius with him while he threw in a penny , which came back covered with lava . There was excite ...
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... everything in our world is new , startlingly new . None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curi- osity about new things , or to lose our humility in the face of new situations . If we can keep that flexibility of mind ...
... everything in our world is new , startlingly new . None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curi- osity about new things , or to lose our humility in the face of new situations . If we can keep that flexibility of mind ...
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... everything we can acquire to help us understand the new situations , the new problems that are arising on all sides . If this sounds heavy and oppressive , then the essential point has been missed . Learning can be a game . Imagination ...
... everything we can acquire to help us understand the new situations , the new problems that are arising on all sides . If this sounds heavy and oppressive , then the essential point has been missed . Learning can be a game . Imagination ...
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