Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEYAnyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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