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.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
More John Dewey Quotes
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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