The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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