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.
JOHN DEWEYTo me faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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.
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