A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEYThe local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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