Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEYThe vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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