I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
JOHN DEWEYArriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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 put is half solved.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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