To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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