There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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