Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEYThe vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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