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.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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