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.
JOHN DEWEYInsecurity 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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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