We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
JOHN DEWEYOf all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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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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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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