Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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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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To me, faith means not worrying.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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