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.
JOHN DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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