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.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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