The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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