To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEYWe do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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