6 Quotes & Sayings By Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook was a political philosopher, an intellectual historian, a founding member of the New York Intellectuals, and a leading spokesperson for the Left in the United States from the 1920s through World War II. His best-known book is The Mind Managers: A Study in the Cults of the Intellect, a seminal work on the rise of modern academic culture. His posthumous major work is Politics and Adventure: A Novel of Ideas. He also published several collections of essays and articles based on his extensive reading in philosophy and history.

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Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. Sidney Hook
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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. Sidney Hook
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Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Sidney Hook
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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. Sidney Hook
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To silence criticism is to silence freedom. Sidney Hook