Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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I 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.
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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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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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