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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.

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.
JOHN DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
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 DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
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

Education Future Life Live Preparation
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Failure Tree
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Gratitude Literature Possible World
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
JOHN DEWEY

Children Education Teaching
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature

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