Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEYThere’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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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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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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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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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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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 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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