We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEYIf we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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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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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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