A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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