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 DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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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 local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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