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 DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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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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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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