In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEYThe two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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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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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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