Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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 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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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