The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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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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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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