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19 Cards in this Set
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nstead of having a career, what has Eleanor Roosevelt done?
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Live every experience to the utmost
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What are the most important ingredients in a child's education?
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Curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of adventure in life
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According to the French teacher, Mlle. Souvestre, why was your mind given to you?
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To think things out for yourself
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How long must the learning process go on?
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As long as we live
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As opposed to the older method of teaching, which aimed to discipline the mind and teach significant content, a newer approach using Dewey suggested what as the essential thing of learning?
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Relate every fact learned to the general tangible world around us
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According to Eleanor Roosevelt what is the essential thing of learning?
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To train the mind so that it is capable of finding facts as it needs them, train it to learn how to learn
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According to Eleanor Roosevelt, "what counts" in terms of making you an interesting person?
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What ideas that have been stirred up in your mind from what you have read
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Knowing her own deficiencies, what technique (what she calls "one of the most effective and rewarding forms of education") did Eleanor Roosevelt pick up?
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Picking other people's brains
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What is the wonderful question that children use?
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Why?
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What was it that made Eleanor Roosevelt's aunt, Mrs. Cowles, "the rare and useful person" that she was?
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he never lost her curiosity, her interest was never dimmed, she still reached out for new experience and welcomed it
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What happens if you are interested?
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You never have to look for new interests; they come to you
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What must go hand in hand with living?
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Learning
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What is imagination?Unchecked imagination can remain merely a means of escape, but what can happen if it is nourished and directed?
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It can become a flame that lights the way to new things, new ideas, new experience
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What role does "good talk" play in family life and in education?
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An important part
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What role does surrounding a child with objects of beauty accomplish?
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Help form taste
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It is not enough just to surround a child with objects of beauty, what else must also occur?
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The child must be taught to understand the objects of beauty
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What may be "the most essential thing" for a continuing education?
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The capacity to know what you see and to understand what it means
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After Eleanor Roosevelt understood what she saw at department stores, how did her sense of perception change?
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From two-dimensional to three dimensions, with depth
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What is imagination?
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The power to use whatever you have become conscious of and to project yourself beyond what you know into new situations and new thoughts, and develop them, so that you can see things in your mind's eye which you have never actually seen
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