Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY