Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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 goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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