We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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