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.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
More John Dewey Quotes
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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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 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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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