The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEYTo find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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