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.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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The 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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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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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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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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