The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
JOHN DEWEYWhole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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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.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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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.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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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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