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.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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