In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYHolding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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