Capacities

Examples

• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In those three capacities I speak with authority, with confidence, with honourable regret. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We are in our private and personal capacities, of course. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The spontaneous development of our organs and capacities constitutes the education of Nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hence the need that the teacher know both subject matter and the characteristic needs and capacities of the student. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It must suggest the kind of environment needed to liberate and to organize their capacities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• On the contrary, certain capacities of an individual are not brought out except under the stimulus of associating with others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Active habits involve thought, invention, and initiative in applying capacities to new aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The discourse seemed well adapted to their capacities, and was delivered in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• What chance had Mr. Franklin--what chance had anybody of average reputation and capacities--against such a man as this? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To foresee a terminus of an act is to have a basis upon which to observe, to select, and to order objects and our own capacities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In evoking dread and hope of specific tangible reward--say comfort and ease--many other capacities are left untouched. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the doctrine does not determine what use shall be made of the capacities which exist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With the brow of a philosopher above and the jaw of a sensualist below, the man must have started with great capacities for good or for evil. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Capacities bud and bloom irregularly; there is no even four-abreast development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I said, 'Now, my good man, however our business capacities may vary, we are all children of one great mother, Nature. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A poet in love must be encouraged in both capacities, or neither. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But as civilization advances, the gap between the capacities of the young and the concerns of adults widens. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But careful study has made it doubtful whether their native capacities are appreciably inferior to those of civilized man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Any one having these capacities developed to the same extent, with the same opportunities for use, would probably accomplish as much. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the second place, he opposed the prevalent feeling, because with many capacities of being otherwise, he was an ill-conditioned man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We start not so much with superior capacities as with superior stimuli for evocation and direction of our capacities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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