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.
JOHN DEWEYI 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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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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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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 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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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