Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEYThe educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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.
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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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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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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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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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