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.
JOHN DEWEYIn 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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To me faith means not worrying.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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 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 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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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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