Responses

Examples

• Mr. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The answer, in general formulation, is: By means of the action of the environment in calling out certain responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This distrust of the teacher's experience is then reflected in lack of confidence in the responses of pupils. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The environment can at most only supply stimuli to call out responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was a hard case, upon my word; and, I do think you were very much to be pitied, were the kind responses of listening sympathy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some responses are secured, but desires and affections not enlisted must find other outlets. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Again, I listen to Miss Murdstone mumbling the responses, and emphasizing all the dread words with a cruel relish. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Repeated responses to recurrent stimuli may fix a habit of acting in a certain way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His responses grow intelligent, or gain meaning, simply because he lives and acts in a medium of accepted meanings and values. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Food, bits and bridles, noises, vehicles, are used to direct the ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses occur. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here, she quite forgot that it was Pa's turn to make the responses, and clung to his neck. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You daren't do it in your responses at Church, and you mustn't do it in your responses out of Church. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My best feelings were called into play to give fitting responses to the generosity, wisdom, and amenity of my new friend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These responses proceed from tendencies already possessed by the individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The educator's part in the enterprise of education is to furnish the environment which stimulates responses and directs the learner's course. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Shirley's reply was not so prompt as her responses usually were, but at last she answered, Yes--of course; I knew it well. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Angus