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.
JOHN DEWEYEducation is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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.
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