Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…Maine de Biron in the 18th century, and going on with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and more recently with Bergson, William James, and Dewey, the I has been defined as the creature who wills, that instead of cogito ergo sum, the phrase should be volo ergo…
…not take place unless there was a certain normal and natural relationship between the trunk and the neck and head. And Dewey speaks of this in several passages. He said that Alexander's methods of training stand to education in general as education in…
…ordinary life, which shows the enormous importance he attached to it. And yet, although literally millions of teachers now look up to Dewey as the great prophet, practically none that I know of have ever paid the smallest attention to this fact, which to…
…great prophet, practically none that I know of have ever paid the smallest attention to this fact, which to this method, which Dewey regarded as of capital importance. I think one of the reasons for this is that this particular kind of teaching doesn't…