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.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
More John Dewey Quotes
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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