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.
JOHN DEWEYThe only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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