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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.

John Dewey

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEY

Peace War Way
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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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Gratitude Literature Possible World
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
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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Education Failure Tree
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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Communication Existence

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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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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