If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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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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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 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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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