Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEYWe 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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 is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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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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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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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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