Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
JOHN DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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 good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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