Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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.
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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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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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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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