John Dewey on education
John Dewey53 quotes“Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.”
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
John DeweyJohn Dewey The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
John DeweyJohn Dewey To me, faith means not worrying.
John DeweyJohn Dewey 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.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Wonder is the mother of all science.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
John DeweyJohn Dewey 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 DeweyJohn Dewey 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 DeweyJohn Dewey Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
John DeweyJohn Dewey 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.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
John DeweyJohn Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John DeweyJohn Dewey
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