Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEYGive 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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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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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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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