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 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.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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