Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYHunger not to have, but to be.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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