Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
JOHN DEWEYThe vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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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 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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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