Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEYEducation 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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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 ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY