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 DEWEYTo me faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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