The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYThe good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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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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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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