Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEYIf we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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