Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYThe most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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