The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEYLike the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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