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 DEWEYThe goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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 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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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