To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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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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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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 ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
JOHN DEWEY