Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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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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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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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