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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey

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 DEWEY

Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
JOHN DEWEY

Achievement Success
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
JOHN DEWEY

Communication Wonderful
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
To me, faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY

Faith Myself Worry
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

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