Construction
- Adirondack Architecture, an American style of construction
- Adirondack chair, a type of chair used primarily in an outdoors setting
- Picea rubens, a species of spruce tree known as Adirondack when used to make musical instruments
- Adirondack Great Camps, luxurious rustic vacation compounds
- Adirondack shelter, a style of lean-to
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Famous quotes containing the word construction:
“Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)