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.
JOHN DEWEYExpertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
More John Dewey Quotes
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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