“We absorb attitudes as well as subject matter in the learning process. …the attitudes tend to determine what we see, and what we fail to see, in the subject matter. This is why attitude is just as important as content in the educational process.”

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The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

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American linguist 1908–2001

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