The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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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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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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