If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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 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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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-defined is a problem half solved.
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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY